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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



The Whosoever Gospel. 



BY 

A. M. HILLS, 

President of Texas Holiness University, and Author of 

Holiness and Power; Life of Mary Trowbridge; Pentecostal Light; and 
Food for Lambs. 



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Of CONGRBSi 

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M. W. KNAPP, 

Office of The Revivalist, Pentecostal Holiness Library, and 

Full Salvation Quarterly. 

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DEDICATION. 



TO the hopeless, homeless prodigals who have wan- 
dered far from their Father's house, only to find 
soul-hunger and rags and shame; to those who have 
been led by Satan to believe that their blessed God 
has forgotten them, and does not care that they 
perish; to those with whom life has gone so hard 
that all moral ideals have faded out, and all prospects 
of heaven have vanished, till, in sheer despair, they 
do not knock at the Savior's door of mercy ; and to 
all sinners of every age or race, or degree of guilt, 
respectable or outcast, moral or criminal, — this book 
is lovingly and prayerfully dedicated by 

THE AUTHOR. 



INTRODUCTION 



THERE are teachers and preachers, not a few, who 
deal chiefly in discouragements and condemna- 
tions. They measure the infinite mercy of God by 
the tapeline of their own littleness, and then report 
to the world that it is only a meager thing after all, 
and that but few can be saved. They go to musty 
creeds two or three hundred years old for their 
theology, instead of repairing to the everlasting Word 
— the Fountain of saving truth. They teach that the 
atonement was limited to the few, and grace is an 
arbitrary, autocratic, and aristocratic affair, in spite of 
all God's assertions to the contrary. It seems as if 
such misguided men would rather proclaim the nar- 
rowing, soul-dwarfing traditions of men, than to blow 
the gospel trumpet and proclaim the world-wide grace 
of Him who " tasted death for every man," and who 
stands on pierced feet and stretches out pierced 
hands with ineffable love and compassion, and cries, 
" Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." 
This little book is designed to magnify this sav- 
ing grace of the adorable Jesus, and to sound out the 
message of hope to sin-darkened, despairing souls. 

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Introduction. 6 

We are not of the number of those who join with 
the devil in heaping up obstacles and discourage- 
ments in the path of the sinner's return to the arms 
of a forgiving God. Pardon and peace, yea, and 
sanctifying grace, are all ready for the willing soul; 
and Jesus appeals by every motive that can move the 
troubled heart to come to Him and be saved. 

We recently heard Bud Robinson, the incompara- 
ble Texan preacher, say that he got converted, and 
then he got sanctified; after that he was a candidate 
for election to glory, (i Peter i, 2.) The election took 
place in heaven. God the Father voted for him ; 
God the Son voted for him; God the Spirit voted for 
him; the angels counted the votes, and declared him 
unanimously elected to glory. 

Dear reader, in spite of all your past sins, you, 
too, by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus, through 
the cleansing blood, and the baptism with the Holy 
Spirit, can secure a unanimous election to eternal 
glory. 



CONTENTS. 



I. The Crowning Promise, ------ 9 

Revelations xxii, 17. 

II. The Throbbing Heart, -------27 

John iii, 16. 

III. The Triple Assurance, ------ 45 

Joel ii, 32 ; Acts hi, 21 ; Romans x, 13. 

IV. The Two Great Necessities, 70 

John hi, 3, 14, 15 ; and Heb. xii, 14. 



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But if you still His calls refuse, 

Fearful will be the cost ; 
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THE WHOSOEVER GOSPEL 



I. THE CROWNING PROMISE. 

"And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let him that 
heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And who- 
soever will, let him take the water of life freely." — Revelation 
xxii, 17. 

Some one has told us that there are thirty-two thou- 
sand promises in the Word of God. So many encour- 
agements to poor, sin-cursed mortals to come to God 
and seek mercy and find pardon and life. It seems that 
God was not satisfied with thirty-two thousand such 
encouragements, and in this last book in the Bible, and 
in the last chapter and in almost the last verse, He has 
seemed to compress all His love and gentleness and ten- 
derness and longings into one verse, and tried to outdo 
Himself in giving a gracious, wooing invitation to man. 

I want to call your attention to two truths assumed 
by the text, and three taught in the text. One of the 
strongest ways of asserting a thing is to assume it. For 
instance, if man had been writing the Bible he would 
have used a book larger than the Book of Genesis to 
prove that there is a God; but God made the Bible, and 
He did not stop a minute to prove His own existence. 
He simply said: "In the beginning God created the heav- 
ens and the earth." There is not a line in the Bible to 

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prove that God exists, any more than you would sit down 
to write to your child, and would say, "Dear Child, Your 
mother is alive." Now, this is a strong way of asserting 
a truth, by assuming it. 

The first thing that is assumed in the text is, that 
man, by nature, is away from God, and is in perishing 
need of God and salvation. This great, urgent need of 
the soul is likened in the text to thirst. Most of us do 
not know anything about what thirst means. You live 
here by the side of this beautiful Ohio River, with its 
abundant waters, and you do not know what thirst 
is; but there are some people that do know what thirst 
means. The Bible was written in the neighborhood of 
great deserts, and men sometimes were in these deserts, 
and they knew what thirst meant. Sometimes there were 
great droughts, and the water failed. The cisterns were 
exhausted, and thirst meant something. Becalmed mar- 
iners on the deep know what thirst means. They say it 
is one of the most unutterable, agonizing sensations that 
the physical being can know. The tongue swells and 
becomes speechless; the limbs turn black; and men have 
been known in their agony to open their own veins and 
suck their own feverish blood in the vain attempt to 
quench their raging, maddening thirst. 

That is the figure that God has used to represent the 
condition of man without God and salvation. Is that 
overdrawn language, or is it the accuracy of calm state- 
ment used by God Almighty? Beloved, I believe that is 
a plain, simple statement of the condition of the soul 
without God. I will tell you why I think so. Did you 
ever stop a single moment to reflect upon the strange, 
sad features of humanity? Its restlessness, its dissatis- 
faction, its manifest craving for something that the world 



The Crowning Promise. ii 

can not give? Do you stand or sit, as I have done hun- 
dreds of times, and look into the faces of the people in 
the audience, and notice the stamp of care and restless- 
ness on so many countenances? What is the trouble 
with humanity? Why is it that people are not satisfied? 
Why is it that the most adventurous voyager that ever 
sailed in unknown seas never found one lone little island, 
whose inhabitants were not vainly trying, somehow, to 
get right with God? No Grant or Stanley threading the 
black heart of benighted Africa ever came on one tribe 
or family who were not trying to propitiate offended 
deities, or, in their ignorant way, trying to get right with 
God. What is the trouble with humanity? It is the 
curse of sin upon it; and it can not be satisfied in a life 
of sin. All the blandishments of your luxurious civil- 
ization do not change the facts any. Men, with all their 
wealth, all their learning, all their power, all their am- 
bitious achievements, are still discontented and dissatis- 
fied without God. 

O, but some one says, "I think if I just had money I 
would be satisfied." The average youth in Cincinnati 
to-night thinks that. I wish I had this room packed with 
young men who had that foolish dream that money could 
satisfy them. One day news went abroad in Wall Street, 
New York, that Jay Gould was in financial difficulties. 
One of his business friends went into his office to com- 
miserate with him over his financial straits. The strange 
financier called the Wizard of Wall Street smiled, and 
said, "You think I am in trouble, do you?" and stepped 
back into his vault, and brought out an armful of securi- 
ties and said, "Count them." The man counted and 
counted and counted securities until they footed up fifty- 
four millions' of dollars worth of securities that Jay Gould 



12 Whosoever. 

could put his hand on in a moment's notice. And yet 
after that he had a great contest with his employees to 
lessen their wages, and he was as eager for money as 
when he was a surveyor working for eighteen dollars per 
month, and a good deal more so. 

Two or three years ago Mr. Armour was reported to 
have sold ninety-three millions of dollars worth of meat 
in that year. Is he satisfied? He is still enlarging his 
great packing business, and reaching out and ever reach- 
ing out for more; like death itself, never satisfied. Take 
John D. Rockefeller. Is he satisfied? I sat at the table 
two or three years ago with a gentleman who said: 
"Twenty-three years ago Mr. Rockefeller and I were 
working at the same desk. Mr. Rockefeller got less than 
I did, and my wages at that time were seven hundred 
dollars per year." Two or three years ago I heard Sena- 
tor Ingalls, of Kansas, say that Mr. Rockefeller was 
brought before a committee of the United States Senate, 
and put under oath and asked how much his income was. 
He said: "So far as I can judge, my income is ten or 
twelve million dollars a year, and how much more I do 
not know and do not care." I should not think it would 
be a matter for him to worry much about. About that 
time I was riding with a gentleman on Euclid Avenue 
in Cleveland, and he said: "Mr. Rockefeller lives right 
there. He has two homes on Euclid Avenue." A banker 
in the city told me recently that, so far as he could esti- 
mate, Mr. Rockefeller's income was not less than twenty 
million dollars per year; fifty thousand dollars a day; two 
thousand dollars and more every hour that he wakes or 
sleeps! and yet, is he satisfied? You can not tap an oil 
territory on the globe that he does not want to gobble 
it up. He is even going outside of the oil business into 



The Crowning Promise. 13 

the iron business, and reaching out and grasping to pull 
in more. What does that mean? Why, friends, it means 
this, that money, mere money, apart from sacred uses to 
which a consecrated man can put it, never did and never 
can satisfy a living soul. 

O, but some young man says, "If I just had money, 
and power, and fame, I could be satisfied, I think!" Do 
you think so? Let me give you another illustration. 
We will take a very famous one, General Grant. You 
know the Nation took Grant from obscurity, and made 
him all that he was. Put him at the head of the greatest 
army that was ever marshaled on this planet since Christ 
came into the world, and he was the commander of more 
powerful armies than were ever marshaled under the 
command of any other leader. That was honor enough. 
After the war was over the Nation enriched him. Men 
gave him residences in this city, and property in that. 
One man gave him one hundred thousand dollars in a 
single gift. Then he was made President of the United 
States, a position for which he was never fitted, and then 
he was given a second term as President of the United 
States, a position he had not earned. Was he satisfied? 
You remember that after he had got all that, and prob- 
ably as much as any American can ever get, and I hope 
more than any other American will ever get again, he 
reached out for that little third term bauble, and so tar- 
nished the glory of his life, and showed to the world that 
Grant was not satisfied. By and by the shadows of his 
life were lengthening on the plains of Mount McGregor, 
and he was about to die; and what does this man do? 
He has been enriched a second time. But with all his 
honor and all his wealth he sends for a Methodist min- 
ister, and begs him to baptize him and give him the 



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communion, for he wants to get Christ before he dies. 
And after the funeral Mrs. Grant made the most wonder- 
ful comment upon it all. She said: "With all our fame 
and with all our wealth and with all our power, we were 
never happier than when we were out West, and Colonel 
Grant was working for forty dollars per month." O, 
young man, you who think forty dollars a month is noth- 
ing, and that if you could only have wealth and fame and 
power you would be satisfied, look at that picture, and 
learn this, that all this world's power and wealth and 
fame laid at the feet of any man would never satisfy him. 
Why not? The reason is that God never intended that 
the soul made in his image should be satisfied with any 
bauble of time. 

Second. My text assumes that Jesus can satisfy. 
Jesus meets every want of the soul. God made us for 
Himself, and in Him we find the needs of the soul met, 
and in Him alone. W r hy is this? I will show you by an 
illustration. Suppose that you were starving and 
thirsty, actually starving to death, and you were down 
at Biltmore, N. C, where Cornelius Vanderbilt has twelve 
thousand acres of land made into a paradise on earth, 
and a seven-million-dollar palace, and suppose he should 
take you into that castle and say to you, "Here is a deed 
to this whole estate; I give it to you." You would 
say to him, "It is all very nice, sir; but I am starving to 
death. Please give me some food." Suppose, instead 
of giving you food, he should say : " Look at this art here 
on these walls. Look at this statuary. Look at these mas- 
terpieces of human skill. Do you not enjoy art? I give all 
these to you." You would look at it, and say : " Yes, sir; 
Mr. Vanderbilt, I enjoy art; but, please, sir, give me some 



The Crowning Promise. 15 

food; I am starving to death." Suppose that, instead of 
giving you food, he should bring in Theodore Thomas's 
orchestra, and it should discourse to you the sweetest 
strains that ever ravished human ear, and he should say : 
"Listen to those strains. Have you a musical soul?" 
"O yes," you might say, "I enjoy music; but, sir, give 
me some food. I am starving." And just as the twelve- 
thousand-acre paradise, and the palace, and the art, and 
the statuary, and the music could not feed your hungry 
stomach, because your stomach craved for its natural 
food; so all this world can not satisfy your soul, because 
it is not the natural food of one made in the image of 
God. You were made for God, and you must have God, 
or die of hunger and thirst. A Christian singer has put 
this into song: 

" I tried the broken cisterns. Lord ; but ah ! their waters failed ; 
Even as I stooped to drink they fled, and mocked me as I wailed. 
Now, none but Christ can satisfy. None other name for me ; 
There is light and love and peace and joy, Lord Jesus, found in 
thee." 

That is the reason why the soul thirsts and dies without 
God, and God can bring it supreme and eternal satis- 
faction. 

Now, secondly, I come to what the text teaches. 
First, it teaches that there is a universal supply for this 
universal need. I know that men deny this truth. They 
try to hedge off salvation, and limit it by their creeds 
and their little petty interpretations of Scripture. They 
even dare to hammer to pieces God's sovereignty, and 
build little sectarian walls around the fountain of life. 
And they have dared to stand over it, and say this foun- 



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tain of life is only for the elect; and if you are elect, come 
in; but the non-elect must stand back and perish. This 
is a private affair only for the elect, they say. But O, 
I plant my feet on this text, and say that one of God's 
eternal decrees is, "Whosoever will, let him take of the 
water of life freely." Jesus Christ "tasted death for every 
man." He has made atonement for all the world, and 
he invites every fallen son and daughter of Adam to come 
to the fountain and drink and live. O, I praise God for 
these sweeping universal "whosoevers" of God's Word! 
That takes in me. That takes in everybody that will have 
it so. Wherever there is a soul burdened and a con- 
science troubled and a life blighted by conscious sin, 
there flows the fountain of life and there stands a herald 
of mercy, saying, "Whosoever will, let him drink and 
live." 

The second truth that the text teaches is this: This 
salvation is FRED. Glory to God ! it is free in three senses. 
In the first place, it is free because it has already been 
bought and paid for. When you go down to a store and 
buy a parcel of goods, and then send your boy or your 
servant after it, if they take out their pocket-book to pay 
for the goods again, the honest merchant will say: "Take 
it right along, the goods have been paid for. You do not 
need to pay for them. Take them right along." So, my 
dear friends, when you go to get your salvation, remem- 
ber that you were redeemed, not with silver or gold, not 
with corruptible things, but you were redeemed with the 
white coin of Jesus' tears and the red coin of His blood. 
He paid the dear price of your redemption, and you do 
not need to pay that price over again. 

Second, this salvation is free again, in the sense that 



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God does not ask anything for it. He asked a big price 
of His dear Son. It cost Him humiliation and shame, 
the bloody sweat of Gethsemane, and the agony and 
death of Calvary's cross; but it does not cost you any- 
thing. You do not need to pay penance; you do not need 
to perform works; you do not need to try to earn this 
great salvation by your poor, little, human doings. But 
O, that is one of the truths Satan hates ; and he has tried 
to keep it away from the mind of man. That is the error' 
of the whole Catholic Church. They have forgotten that 
salvation is free; and every poor Catholic is put on con- 
tinual doings, doings, doings, to earn peace with God. 

Look at Martin Luther. He has swooned away on- 
the stone floor of his monastery cell. For days he has 
been starving himself to death to earn peace with God. 
He recovers from that, and is sent down to Rome; and 
there he is told that if he will just climb on his knees 
the staircase of Pilate, and say a prayer on each step, he j 
will have an indulgence. And he is doing it, trying to 
earn salvation. He gets half way up, and God flashes 
some truth into his soul, "The just shall live by faith;" 
and he rises right up and walks down a free man, saved 
by faith, and the Reformation is begun. 

Do you think that truth was remembered? No, it 
was not. Two hundred years more pass away. The truth 
is almost lost again. There is a holiness club over there 
in Oxford, England, composed of some beautiful young 
men, Whitefield and John Wesley and Charles Wesley; 
and they are doing over again the same thing that Luther 
did. That beautiful youth, Whitefield, is lying on the 
ground for hours, his arms spread out in the form of a 
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suffering, to earn salvation. He is eating coarse food, 
and wearing mean clothes, and in various ways torturing 
himself. He is growing sick, and for nine weeks he is 
sick unto death. One day a book is given him by Charles 
Wesley, and he reads in this book that a person can say 
his prayers, and can be baptized and go to communion, 
and still not be saved. In great agony of soul he holds 
the book up to God, and says, "If this is not salvation, 
show me what Christianity is, that my poor soul may 
not be damned at last." He reads a little further, that 
Christianity is a vital union of the soul by living faith 
with Jesus ; and his soul reaches right out and grasps the 
great truth, and he is saved to become the seraphic 
preacher of the ages. 

Three years pass away before Charles Wesley gets 
this blessing. Charles Wesley is at this time a graduate 
of Oxford, a scholar and a poet; and yet he has been try- 
ing to earn salvation. He is taught by a humble servant 
in his own household to see that salvation is obtained by 
faith in Jesus. As a lily opens to the sunlight on a June 
morning, his soul opens up to God by faith, and he steps 
into the kingdom. John Wesley gets saved four days 
later. Remember now that John Wesley has been a 
graduate of Oxford and a preacher for ten years, and he 
went as a missionary to America to convert the Georgia 
Indians. One time in agony of soul he wrote in his 
diary, "I came here to convert the Indians; but, alas! 
who will convert me?" He is visiting the poorhouses 
and jails to save his soul. He is denying himself to save 
his soul. Poor man, he has got a soul on his hands; 
and for the life of him he does not know what to do with 
it. Four days after his brother Charles got into the king- 
dom — I think it was the 23d of April, 1738, when John 



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Wesley was thirty-five years of age — this brilliant 
scholar was taught by a humble Moravian to take Christ 
by faith, and he at once steps over the line into the king- 
dom of God, and the second reformation is born. 

Do you think the blessed doctrine of salvation by faith 
has been remembered? Beloved, plenty of Protestant 
people to-day are doing the same thing over again — trying 
to get salvation by works. I will give you proof of it. I 
was laboring in the inquiry-room in Pittsburg during a 
meeting of Moody's some ten or fifteen years ago, and 
he asked me to go and talk to a certain man in the in- 
quiry-room. I sat down before him with my Bible in 
my hand, and said, "Well, brother, what is your trouble ?" 
"O," he said, "I would like to be converted, but I can 
not be saved because I have no feeling.' , I said, "You 
do not need to have any feeling; you can get saved with- 
out feeling. ,, He said: "I know better than that. Last 
winter I had a great deal of feeling, and I went to the 
altar every night for a week, and I was full of feeling ; but 
I did not get saved; and how can I get saved now with- 
out any feeling?" I said: "Brother, you can. Feeling 
has nothing whatever to do with the subject. You ought 
to have feeling, and you can get down here on your knees 
and tell God that you have no feeling, and that you are 
ashamed of it; but that, feeling or no feeling, you want 
salvation." I talked with that man an hour, and taught 
him that we were not saved by feeling; and he suddenly 
dropped on his knees and gave himself to God without 
any feeling, and in five minutes he was a saved man. 
Then he had plenty of feeling. Now, what was he trying 
to do? He was trying to buy salvation by feeling bad. 
He was utterly discouraged because he could not feel. 
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by groans and tears. But Jesus has bought it by his 
anguish, and you do not need to buy. 

Third. This salvation is free in the sense that God 
will not take anything for it. You have got to take it 
as a free gift, or go without it. I can show you this by 
a very simple illustration, that is beautiful. There was 
in Europe a poor man who had a little dying girl in his 
home, who very much loved flowers. It was in the win- 
ter time; and he walked by the king's garden, and looked 
in and saw the beautiful flowers in the conservatory. 
He took out his little pocketbook, and told the gardener 
that his dying little girl was very fond of flowers, and he 
would like to buy her a little bouquet before she died. 
The gardener answered him harshly. The king's son 
heard it, and said : "Do not grieve the poor man that way. 
Cut a bunch of flowers, and give it to him." He did so, 
and the man, still thinking he had to pay for them, took 
out his little pocketbook and offered the money. The 
king's son stood back and looked at him in amazement, 
and said: "My dear sir, my father is a king. He does not 
sell flowers, he gives them away." I want to> tell you 
all this evening that my Father in heaven is a King, and 
he does not sell salvation to sinners. He Giv£S it away, 
and if we are not willing to be humble enough to come 
as poor beggars, and ask for it and receive it as a gift, 
we will not get salvation. The only claim is your need 
and your helplessness, and God's willingness and God's 
love and God's provisions of grace. Go and ask and 
receive, that your joy may be full. 

There is a third truth taught in the text, and that is 
that this salvation, so abundant in provision, so free that 
it is within reach of the humblest son and daughter of 



The Crowning Promise. 21 

Adam, can only be received on some well-appointed 
conditions. What are they? The text says you must 
be willing. "Whosoever will." It is never crowded 
upon anybody; it is never forced upon anybody. It is 
simply given to the man who is willing to take it on 
God's appointed conditions. What are they? Why, re- 
pentance of sin — forsaking sin, faith in Jesus, and dedi- 
cation to His service. Three simple conditions; but you 
must meet them, or you can not be saved! This salva- 
tion is so free and so abundant; and yet these conditions 
are unvarying and inexorable, and you must meet them, 
or lose the salvation of your soul. 

Charles the Seventh of France starved to death. 
What did he starve to death for? Was there no bread in 
all France for the king? O yes, there was plenty of 
bread; but he starved to death because he was insane, and 
was not willing to eat. And, beloved, if you are so in- 
sanely in love with this world, that you refuse to eat the 
bread of life, then you have to die. That is all. 

Some years ago the Duke of Clarence, the oldest son 
of Prince Albert of England, died. Why did that young 
man die, with only his father between him and Queen 
Victoria's crown, and the sovereignty of the greatest 
empire in the world? Why did that young man die? 
Not because there was no life for him, but because he 
would not comply with life's conditions. He loved cig- 
arettes, and the royal physician said to him, "Your Royal 
Highness must stop smoking cigarettes, or you will die." 
He did not stop, and die he did. He refused to pay the 
price of self-denial for life and the crown of England. 
And I say to you that God holds up before you the price- 
less crown of eternal righteousness, and you must pay 



22 WHOSOEVKR. 

the price. And if you are not willing to meet God's con- 
ditions, then, with all this abundant salvation, provided 
for you and easily accessible, your soul must perish. 

But some one says, "Why do you say, you must 
dedicate yourself to God's service? Why do you put that 
in as a condition of salvation? Very few preachers do 
it; why do you?" I will tell you why I do it. Because 
there are any quantity of people to-day who are dream- 
ing that they can get saved and not enter God's service. 
I say to you that that is one of the devil's snares and 
delusions ; and there is no salvation for the man who does 
not intend to immediately enter into the service of God. 
Joshua understood it when he said, "Choose you this 
day whom you will serve;" and that man who says he 
can get saved and go on in the service of the devil as he 
did before, is a deluded soul. 

Some years ago, over here in Kentucky, there was a 
man by the name of Sam Holmes, who committed a 
great crime. He had a friend by the name of Lucien 
Young, who was also an intimate friend of the famous 
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky. One time Lucien 
Young went to the governor, and said, "We have always 
been friends since boyhood, have we not?" "Yes, Lucien, 
we have always been friends; we have never fallen out." 
"Well," said Lucien, "I would like to have you do a 
favor just for my sake." "What is it? If I can do it I 
will, for your sake." He said, "I want you to pardon out 
of State's prison my friend, Sam Holmes, for my sake." 
He said, "For your sake I will give you that pardon;" 
and he wrote out the pardon, and Lucien Young took it 
and thanked him for it, and went to the State's prison. 
He got admitted to Sam Holmes's cell, and had a talk 
with him. In the course of the conversation he said, 



Thk Crowning Promisk. 23 

"What would you do if Governor Blackburn should par- 
don you?" He answered, "I would go straight to Lan- 
caster and kill Judge Owsley for sentencing me." Lucien 
Young turned pale, said a few words, bade him good- 
bye, then passed out of the cell. After the cell-door was 
locked behind him, he turned and said, "Sam, here is a 
pardon that Governor Blackburn gave me to give you; 
but, sir, you can not have it." He tore it to pieces, and 
left the prison. Why did he not give it to him? Can you 
not see why he did not give it to him? He was a friend 
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and a friend of the 
governor and of the judge, and if Sam Holmes could not 
come out of that prison and become a decent, law-abiding 
citizen, he should stay there. 

Can you not see the application? The Lord Jesus 
Christ proposes to save you from your sins; but he does 
not propose to save you in your sins ; and if you are not 
willing to leave sin, and enter at once with all your heart 
and soul into the service of Jesus Christ, you will have 
to remain in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of 
iniquity. You will have to remain a child of the devil. 
God is not giving his priceless salvation to the devil's 
children. May God help you understand this! We have 
got plenty of people in the city who think they are saved, 
because they have been baptized and they have joined 
the Church ; but they are living the same old devilish life 
that they always lived. You can not be saved until you 
enlist under the banner of the cross, and start out to serve 
Jesus with all your soul. If you are willing to do that, 
you can, any of you, be saved to-night. 

In closing, I want to turn your attention to this won- 
drous invitation. "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come." 
The Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God that inclined your 



24 Whosokvkr. 

heart to come to this meeting, and moves upon you to 
accept the offers of life. The Bride is the Church — the 
Church militant here below, and the Church triumphant 
over there. Over there, it may be, is father or mother, 
or brother or sister, or possibly a child — loved ones over 
there, and they are all saying to you, "Come, come, 
come." "Let him that heareth say, Come." Every con- 
vert living on the globe is invited to turn right around, 
and repeat the invitation, and say, "Come, come." 

"And whosoever will, let him take of the water of life 
freely." I once saw Mr. Moody give a most wonderful 
illustration of that truth. During the Moody meetings 
in Pittsburg we held our services in the Great Central 
Rink, and then had to go several squares to get an in- 
quiry-room. There were several hundred in the inquiry- 
room one night; and there sat near Mr. Moody, so close 
that he could reach out his hand and touch him, a young 
man who had sat there two nights before, and had not 
got hold of the idea of faith. Suddenly Mr. Moody 
picked up a new, flexible, expensive Bible, and startled 
the young man by saying, "Young man, if you will take 
that Bible, I will give it to you." He looked up in blank 
amazement, and did not offer to take it. Mr. Moody 
repeated what he said, "Young man, I mean what I say; 
if you will take that Bible, I will give it to you." He put 
up his hand a little way to take it, but drew it back. He 
still could not believe that Mr. Moody meant what he 
said; but Mr. Moody insisted that he wanted to give it to 
him if he would only take it, and he reached out his hand 
and took it. "There," says Moody, "you have not un- 
derstood the meaning of faith. I thought you would be 
here to-night, and I bought that Bible to-day and wrote 
my name in it, intending to give it to you; and just as 



The Crowning Promise. 25 

I bought that Bible and offered it to you, so has God 
bought salvation by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, 
and he holds it out to you, and says, Whosoever will, 
let him Take it." 

O, what a truth! But, beloved, remember what is 
back of that truth. If this wondrous salvation has been 
bought at such a price, and offered to us, and then we 
are not willing to take it as a free gift, we die, we ought 
to die, WE must die, WE WILL DIE; and God, and 
angels, and men, and our own souls must say, "Amen, 
my damnation is just. I deserve to be lost. I would not 
take the blood-bought salvation that was offered by Jesus 
as a gift." 

Do not look up in my face to-night, and say you are 
not thirsty, if you are out of Christ. Without him you 
are thirsty. If you should be taken sick on your way 
home, and you should summon a physician, and the doc- 
tor should come and tell you you would die at midnight, 
you would be filled with a mortal fear. That fear is a 
token of thirst. That fear to meet your God shows that 
your heart is restless, and craving, and dissatisfied, and 
thirsty for spiritual experiences that you know you do 
not possess. There was a woman in New York City who 
came home to her palace after a night of worldly pleasure, 
and threw herself down upon her velvet carpet and 
moaned out, "O God, let me die. let me die!" There she 
was, blazing with diamonds and jewels, and robed like 
a queen, yet crying out for death. But it was not death 
that she was longing for, it was life; it was the Lord of 
life that she really wanted. And she reached out and 
took Jesus; and then she wanted to live for the glory 
of the Savior who had bought her. 

O, you need this salvation! God longs to give it to 



26 Whosokvkr. 

you. No one is ruled out but the one who rules himself 
out, and refuses to accept the offer of eternal life. Only 
the man who pushes away the pierced hand laden with 
heavenly gifts, and pressing to thirsty lips the full cup 
of the water of life, will perish. He who does that, must 
hunger and thirst, and starve and die. Do not do it. 
"The Spirit and the Bride say, Come, and let him that 
heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. 
And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." 



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FPOM TE.4RS /!ND TRIUMPHS COMBINED 



No- 2U 



CALVARY. 



Rev. B. Carradinb. 



Rev. L. L. Pickett. 




1. There's a hill lone and gray, In a land far a-way,In a conn-try beyond the bine sea, 



Behold ! faint on the road, 'Neath the world's heavy load, Comes a thorn-crown'd Man on the way ! 
3. Hark,I hear the doll blow Of the hammer swung low , They are nail-ing my Lord to the tree ! 
4How they mock Him in death To His last lab'ring breath, While His friends sadly weep o'er the way ! 




Where beneath that fair sky, Went aMan forth to die, For the world and for you and for me. 
With a cross He is bowed,But still on thro' the crowdHe 's ascending thathill lone andgray. 

And the cross they npraise While the multitude gaze On the blest Lamb of dark Calva-ry ! 

But tho' lone-ly and faint Still no word of complaint Fell from Him on that hillock of gray. 




l-5.0h,it bows down my heart, And the tear-drops will start, When in mem'ry that gray hill Isee ; 
6. Shout aloud, then, my soul, Let the glad tidings roll From the land to the ends of the sea! 




For 'twas there on its side Jesus suffer'd and died, To re-deem a poor sin-ner like me. 
Je-sus conquer'd the grave, And has risen to save The whole world, and to make us all free. 




Copyright, 1896, by Sev. L. L. Piokett, Wilmore, Ky. 



5 Then the darkness came down, 
And the rocks rent around 
And a cry pierced the sad-laden air! 
'T was the voice of our King, 
Who received death's dark sting, 
All to save us from endless despair. 



6 Let the sun hide its face, 
Let the earth reel apace. 
Over men who their Saviour have slates! 
But, hehold! from the sod 
Comes the blessed Lamb of God, 
Who was slain, but is risen again. 



FROM TEARS AND TRIUMPHS COMBINED 



II. THE THROBBING HEART. 

" For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life." — John hi, 16. 

I suppose as many people can repeat that verse as 
any other verse in the Word of God. I heard a gentle- 
man say in a city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 
where I was holding revival meetings some years ago, 
that that verse was the throbbing heart of the Bible. If 
one limb of a compass was put on that verse, and a circle 
was drawn around it, it would take in the whole Bible. 
Martin Luther said that verse was so important that it 
ought, if possible, to be written across the face of the 
skies in letters of gold, and be repeated by every believer 
every day of his life. 

I. In discussing this marvelous and exceedingly well- 
known passage of Scripture to-night, I want to call your 
attention, in the first place, to the occasion which led to 
this gift. It was the sight of a world lost in trespasses 
and sin, alienated from God, and pouring like a Niagara 
tide into an abyss of ruin, that led God to give that won- 
derful gift — a world hopelessly doomed and damned, 
without the infinite grace of God. There are people who 
look upon sin as if it was a trifle. They speak of sin as 
a little incidental thing like the whooping-cough or 
measles that a child has to pass through ; and when it gets 
through it will be the better off for it. But a profound 
thinker says: "Sin is the most expensive thing in the 
universe, either atoned for or unatoned for. If it is not 

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28 Whosoever. 

atoned for, the expense of it must fall upon the sinner's 
head in his eternal damnation. If it is atoned for, the 
expense of it must fall upon God, the Governor of the uni- 
verse. In any event, sin must make this universe forever 
serious." 

II. Let us notice the gift and Giver. "God so loved 
the world that He gave His only begotten Son." We 
can not illustrate this by anything we know in history. 
There is nothing like it. If Queen Victoria had given her 
son, Prince Albert, as an atonement for the Irish assassins 
who committed the cowardly Phcenix Park murder in 
Ireland, it would have been but a faint illustration. For 
Queen Victoria and Albert are not one, as God the Father 
and God the Son are One; and, besides, queens are not 
around doing that kind of thing. We do not find any 
perfect illustration, because no two human beings sustain 
the relationship to each other that God the Father and 
God the Son do in that mysterious unity of the Trinity. 
You see, in giving Jesus, God gave Himself. He took 
upon Himself the suffering and the atoning work, that 
He might meet the claims of public justice, and pave the 
way for an offer of salvation to guilty men. 

There is one little illustration that comes down to us 
from ancient history that does throw some light on this 
theme. We read that Zaleucus, the king of the Locrians, 
found that his government was being destroyed by adul- 
tery ; and he made a law that if any one again committed 
adultery they should have both their eyes put out. His 
own son was the first man to break the law. Now, what 
should he do? His fatherly heart pleaded for mercy 
for his boy. His kingly heart said, No, stand by the law 
and stand by the interests of the people, and by the vir- 
tue of the family and the home, and protect the interests 



The Throbbing Heart. 29 

committed to your trust. Now, he reflected, if I put 
out the eyes of my boy, they may call me cruel. And on 
the other hand, if I do not inflict the penalty, they will 
say I made a law without first considering its bearings. 
If I spare my boy, they will say I am partial, because it 
was my own son who broke the law; that I ignore the 
claims of justice; that I am false to my trust. What 
should he do? Well, this is what he did do. He first had 
one of his own eyes put out. Now he has made a half 
of an atonement, and he can turn around and offer to his 
boy a half of a pardon. Then he put one of his boy's 
eyes out. Now the claim of justice has been met. He 
has stood by the virtue of society; he has shown that he 
has the well-being of the Government at stake, and after 
the claims of the law have been fully met, he has had 
a chance to make an offer of partial pardon to his boy. 
Now, Jesus made a complete atonement. He took our 
place. He fully honored the public justice of the uni- 
verse, as much as the infliction of the penalty on us 
would have done. And now he is free to turn around 
and offer pardon to all mankind. As the apostle Paul 
says in the third chapter of Romans, "God can now be 
just and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus." It 
was a wondrous atonement that removed the difficulties 
that stood in the way of our salvation. 

III. Notice the motive that led to this. It was lov£. 
"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten 
Son." And let me here say to you, beloved, that all love 
is measured by just one thing; and it is the only thing 
that can measure love in this universe. Love is measured 
by the sacrifice it will make. Dr. Joseph Parker, of Lon- 
don, says, "If love were represented by a straight line, 
sacrifice would be the last point in the line." No one 



30 Whosoever. 

loves you who will not sacrifice for you. While you 
were prosperous and well and everything was going your 
way, and you were riding on the top wave, people came 
around and patted you and called you a friend; but you 
had not the slightest evidence that they were friends to 
you. Let the tide turn; let prosperity leave you, and 
fortune take wings and fly away; let sickness come; let 
dishonor smite your name and blast your reputation, and 
then see who will stand by you and help you and put 
themselves out to do it. Then you will find out who 
loves you. That is the only test there is of love. Sup- 
pose some one should say to you, "Your mother does not 
love you;" what would you say about it? If you have 
such a mother as I had, you would say, "What, sir, my 
mother not love me! You do not know my mother. 
My mother cheerfully went down into the valley of the 
shadow of death to bring me into being; and when I was 
born she hovered over my cradle like a guardian angel. 
She let the roses fade from her cheek, and the hand of 
care drive the furrows across her brow; and there never 
was a day, if necessary, that my mother would not pour 
out her heart's blood for me. I tell you, my mother loves 
me." How do I know it? Because of the sacrifice a 
mother makes for her child. Now, make the applica- 
tion. Are you ever tempted to think that God does not 
love you? When things are not going as you would like 
to have them, or health fades away, or your home is 
bereaved and your heart is stricken and lonely, do you 
feel as if God had forsaken you, and does not love you? 
If that temptation ever assails you, come to this text, and 
stand upon Calvary's summit and look upon the tragedy 
enacted there, and say to yourself: "O, this is the measure 
of the love of God. God so loved my poor sinful soul 



The Throbbing Hkart. 31 

that He gave His richest treasure, His only begotten 
Son, for me." 

IV. Now, let us notice to whom this gift was given. 
There are people who like to narrow the plan of salvation 
to make it fit the measure of their little narrow minds. 
There are people who talk about provision being made 
in God's infinite love and grace for some few favored 
mortals, who, without any reason in themselves, had 
some special gift bestowed upon them to please an arbi- 
trary God. They tell us that God gave His Son to die 
only for the elect. Can you believe that? Do you not 
know that that idea would paralyze faith itself, and defeat 
the very scheme of salvation? Suppose that the richest 
citizen in this city, whoever he may be, should will all 
his millions to some elect souls in Hamilton County, 
Ohio. Could you put in a claim at the Probate Court 
here under such a will as that? You could not prove 
that you were some of the elect souls, and if no other 
heirs could be found that could put in a better claim than 
that, the whole will would be null and void, and the prop- 
erty would revert to the State. 

Suppose my text read, "God so loved the world that 
He gave His only begotten Son, that some elect souls 
might not perish." Do you not know there is not one 
of us that would dare to put in a claim on such a will as 
that? Such a text as that would paralyze the hope of the 
sinner, and defeat redemption by making faith impossi- 
ble, and would consign us all to a hopeless doom. O, 
I thank God for that word "world" in the text, for it 
means all humanity. And again, I thank God for that 
precious word "whosoever" in my text. That means me. 

Martin Luther said he would rather have that word 
"whosoever" in that text, than have his own name in it. 



32 Whosoever. 

I certainly would. I will tell you why. If my name was 
in that text, how would I know I was that fellow? There 
may be a good many people by the name of A. M. Hills 
in the world somewhere. You know there are a good 
many Hills in the world. Hill is a very common name; 
but our family has carried the s. Some time ago I was 
raising money to build a church in Allegheny City. I 
was up in Connecticut, and I was getting letters with 
hundred-dollar checks in them, fine sums of money. One 
day I went to the post-office and called for my mail, and 
a letter was handed out to me for A. M. Hills, my initials 
exactly, and that characteristic s. Yet I opened that 
letter, and lo! and behold! it was for the advance agent 
of a theater! It was not for me at all. So, do you not 
see, if my name was in that text there would be no cer- 
tainty at all that I was the man that might be saved. 
But when God says, "Whosoever believeth," I shout 
"Hallelujah to God! that gives me a chance to be saved." 
I put in my claim. 

O beloved, do not measure God's mercy and grace 
by some of these narrow, belittling creeds. Do not meas- 
ure the infinite, transcendent, matchless ocean of God's 
love by some creed-maker's conception of it. God says, 
"Whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have 
everlasting life." 

V. That brings me to the fifth truth in my text, and 
that is this: Notice the effect of this atoning work of 
Jesus. It was not what a great many people think it 
was. I was talking with a Universalist once, and he 
said, "Jesus died for everybody, did he not?" "Yes, sir." 
"Well, then, why should not every one be saved?" I 
said, "O, that does not follow at all." That is the rash 
conclusion some people come to. But it does not follow 



Thk Throbbing Hkart. 33 

at all that every one will be saved. My text does not say 
that God gave His only begotten Son that every son and 
daughter of Adam shall be saved. It says that God gave 
His only begotten Son that whosoever bElievETh." 
Now, this is what the atoning work of God did. It gave 
God a chance to offer salvation to every one. But the 
atoning work in itself did not save any one. I remark 
again, I want you to remember it, that the atoning work 
in itself did not save any one. "What!" you say. No, it 
did not. What did it do? It simply removed and set 
aside the difficulty that arose in the nature of God's law 
and government, and made it possible for God to OFFER 
salvation to every one. He makes the offer on con- 
ditions that are proper, and that seem wise to Him. The 
conditions are repentance from sin, faith in Jesus, and 
dedication of your life to God and His service. Those 
are the conditions; but if nobody complied with them, 
then nobody would be saved, even though Christ has 
died. Now, He says, "Whosoever complies with the 
conditions shall not perish, but have everlasting life." I 
charge you before God, do not insert some of your 
human notions into this text ; but let it stand, let it stand 
as God puts it. Let us have no loose thinking here. It 
is, "Whosoever believeth," with all the things that accom- 
pany a heart belief, which certainly are repentance of sin 
and a hearty, cheerful entering into the service of the living 
God. That saves you from the fundamental and awful 
error of Universalism, and keeps you from that pre- 
sumptuous hope that will be the doom of many a soul. 

Now, I want to give you a few remarks in closing 
this discussion. 

I. I want you to notice what is not the sinner's 
ground for hope. He can not claim any salvation, or 
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34 Whosoever. 

have any hope of salvation in what he does, or ever did do, 
or ever can do. He is not saved by his works, or by his 
goodness, or his morality, or by his character, or rank, or 
strength, or ^oa'a/ position. None of these things weigh 
an atom with God, and none of these things can, by any 
means, set aside the condemnation that is hanging over 
souls. So you see these things are not the ground of 
salvation. 

2. What is the ground of salvation? Why, it is the 
atoning work of Jesus Christ that makes it possible for 
God to save a soul that will comply with His divinely- 
appointed conditions. Jesus has taken our place. He 
has honored the law in our stead; and now God sees fit 
to make the offer that "whosoever believeth in Him shall 
not perish." Therefore, whether you and I are saved or 
not, depends on whether we believe or not. O, I wish 
I could make that plain, and could drive it into the heart 
and thought and memory until it would never be taken 
from you. So many people are measuring their salva- 
tion by their feelings! "Well, brother, how are you to- 
day?" "I do not feel very good." Suppose you do n't, 
what of it? That has nothing to do with salvation. You 
do not read in the Bible that you are saved by feeling. 
You are saved by Jesus Christ through faith, not feeling. 
Do you not know that feelings will vibrate and change. 
If the barometer is heavy, down go your feelings. If 
the sun rises bright and clear, and the air is health-giving, 
your feelings will go up. You are no better than you 
were the day before; because your feelings have gone up, 
that has nothing to do with your goodness. If you have 
some cooking in the morning that is not skillfully done, 
and the breakfast does not quite agree with you, down 
go your feelings. Have you, therefore, lost your salva- 



Thk Throbbing Heart. 35 

tion? No, not at all; but your feelings have gone down. 
There are people who are just going by their feelings, 
day after day, instead of walking with God by faith; and 
plenty of sanctified people are doing the same thing. 
They think, when the feeling has gone, that the Holy 
Ghost has left them, and they must have fallen out some- 
where, and lost sanctification. This is a trick of the devil 
to cheat you out of salvation; but God says, ''Whosoever 
beuevETh shall not perish, but have everlasting life." 
One time during a battle Napoleon Bonaparte's horse 
took fright, and was running away, endangering his life. 
A private soldier in the ranks leaped out and caught the 
horse by the bridle, and held it until it was calmed. The 
great commander made the military salute, and said, "I 
thank you, Captain," and he was only a private soldier. 
But when Napoleon said, "I thank you, Captain," he 
took him at his word, and immediately asked, "Of what 
regiment?" Napoleon said, "Captain of the Guards." 
The soldier threw down his gun in faith, and went and 
joined himself to the Guards. Suppose some one had 
said to him, "What are you doing here?" and he had 
replied, "O, I feel like a captain, and that is why I am 
here." What would they have said? They would have 
said, "You would better feel like a private, and get back 
to the ranks, and be quick about it." But when they 
asked him what he was there for, he pointed to Napoleon, 
and said, "He said it;" and that settled it. How do you 
know you are a Christian to-night? Because you feel like 
it? That is no sign that you are. To-morrow morning 
you may have no feeling at all; and then what? I know 
I am a Christian because he said it. He said that 
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten 
Son, that whosoever bEUEvETh should not perish, but 



36 Whosokver. 

have everlasting life; and there are not men enough in 
earth, or devils enough in hell, to make me believe that 
I do not believe in Jesus. That is something I know, 
for he said it, and that settles it. 

I will give you another illustration to show you the 
folly of going by feelings. I want to drive this home. 
I have found that a great many young converts — pardon 
me if I say especially among the Methodists — who ordi- 
narily have a great deal of feeling about the altar, and 
during the times of revivals, are tempted to depend upon 
feeling. I have found that the devil makes it a snare; 
and when the revival is over, and their feelings have gone, 
they think their religion has gone. And I have found 
more Methodist converts ready to backslide right there 
than any other body of Christians I ever met. Now, I 
want to show you the foolishness of this. President Fair- 
child was once traveling in Palestine, riding in a caval- 
cade across the country, and he chanced to be riding that 
forenoon by the side of a lady who belonged to that 
branch of God's Church that is given to paying a great 
deal of attention to feeling (I will not name the denomi- 
nation now). That lady, that morning, was physically 
depressed, and she said: "I am so disappointed in my 
trip. I thought when I came to this dear land that was 
pressed by the feet of the angels and the prophets and 
the apostles, and by the feet of the dear Son of God, that 
I would have a great spiritual uplift to my soul. But I 
have never been so cold and backslidden in my life as 
now." By and by noon came, and they sat down to din- 
ner, and as that was a wine-drinking country she drank 
some wine for dinner. In the afternoon when the wine 
began to act up went her feelings; and she clapped her 
hands, and exclaimed, "O, I never was so near to God in 



The Throbbing Heart. 37 

my life!" But there was no religion about it; it was 
merely the fuddle of the wine. 

Now, you never can forget that illustration, and I 
want it to remain in your memories as long as you live — 
the unutterable foolishness of measuring your religion 
by involuntary feelings. Is your heart still fixed to 
glorify God, feeling or no feeling? Is your purpose in- 
flexible to do His will, and does your faith still hold to 
the eternal commands and promises of an infinite God? 
That is the question; and that settles it, whether you are 
a Christian or not. 

During the war, Mr. Lincoln made a proclamation 
to emancipate all the slaves, and wherever our armies 
went the soldiers posted up bills that the slaves were 
freed. Most of those slaves could n't read, and they 
would get other people to read the proclamation to them; 
and sometimes the masters would say to the slaves, "The 
boys are fooling you. Those Yanks are fooling you. 
You are not free." One time an old black Dinah said to 
a soldier: "Now, Masser, I want you to tell me, honest 
now, be I free or been't I? These soldiers tells me I 'se 
free, and ole Masser tells me I ain't ; and now tell me, Be 
I free or been't I?" Do you not see, she did not believe 
that she was free, and until she believed it she was n't 
free. She was going right along serving the old master, 
because she did not believe that she was free. It is just 
so with all the slaves of Satan. Until you take God 
Almighty's promises to your heart, and just walk out in 
faith on His Word, and declare you are free in Jesus 
Christ, you will walk right along in the old bondage, the 
slave of the devil. But when you dare to walk out on the 
promise in John iii, 16, you find, glory to God, that the 
chains fall, and Jesus is your master, and whom Jesus 



38 Whosokvkr. 

makes free, is free indeed; and you know the joy of sal- 
vation. But when you begin to doubt that experience 
and to doubt your Savior, away goes your joy, and away 
goes your hope, and away goes your religion. We walk 
by faith, and not by sight; and I almost wish that the 
very word feeling could be for a while dropped out of 
your religious vocabulary. 

Some years ago there was a pardon put into the hands 
of the chaplain of the State prison of Illinois, to announce 
to the prisoners at the next chapel service that Reuben 
Johnson was free. Reuben Johnson was serving a life 
sentence, and had been in the State prison nineteen years ; 
and at the next chapel service the chaplain rose and read 
out the notice, "Reuben Johnson, you are pardoned." 
Reuben Johnson, sitting in the midst of the audience, 
looked all around to see who it could be. He did not 
know it was a pardon for him ; he thought it must be for 
some other man. Why, he was in for life; it could n't be 
him. So you would not know that you could be saved 
by your own name in my text. He thought it might be 
some other Reuben Johnson; but the chaplain said, 
"You, Reuben, you right down there, you are the man; 
you are pardoned" And after the service was over, and 
the usual signal was given to take lock-step and go back 
to the prison cells, he rose up from force of habit, and 
got into step with the others, and was marching to his 
cell. Some one pulled him out, and said, "Reuben John- 
son, you are pardoned;" and if he had not believed that, 
he would have gone right back to his cell, to the old grind 
of prison servitude for life. And I want to tell you that 
my text is Jesus' proclamation and offer of pardon to 
every soul. The man that believes it will find the chains 
drop off, the despair gone, and the darkness gone; the 



The Throbbing Heart. 39 

hopelessness gone; and the light and peace and joy of 
salvation will come sweeping into his soul. Bless the 
Lord! 

3. I call your attention now to what I have been 
teaching all along — the result of this atoning work. You 
see what it was on God's side. It first showed God's 
hatred of sin. It showed God's infinite love and respect 
for His law. It showed His care for His government, 
and it showed His infinite, amazing love for the sinner. 
That is what it did on the Divine side. 

Now, what did it do on man's side ? Remember it did 
not remove the sinner's blameworthiness. He was the 
same guilty sinner that he ever was. It did not remove 
his deserving the punishment. What did it do? Why, it 
gave the sinner a substitute for the penalty. The law 
was, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." "The wages of 
sin is death." The substitute was, "God was in Christ 
reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their 
trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of 
reconciliation." Now, this great atoning work of Jesus 
laid on the sinner the solemn responsibility of choosing 
between the penalty and the substitute, and brought 
mighty motives to bear upon the heart. That is what it 
did, and that is all it does in itself. Suppose a sinner 
refuses to accept the substitute? Then he is the same 
old sinner against God. The same law still stands, and 
the same penalty still impends over him. He is still a 
subject of doom. He must be punished just the same 
as if Jesus had not died. O wondrous truth! Solemn 
thought, awful thought! 

Years ago out in Missouri during the Civil War there 
was a great deal of bushwhacking in one part of the 
country. The people who had rebelled against the Gov- 



40 Whosokver. 

ernment got beyond lawful warfare. They would hide 
behind fences and hedges and walls, and shoot peaceable 
Union people on the highway as they went along. This 
went on until the Government had to say, "We will put 
a stop to that thing;" and they sent out and gathered in 
a great lot of these bushwhackers, and tried them by 
court-martial, and they were condemned to death. A 
row of them were standing up surrounded by soldiers 
ready to shoot them at the signal, when a young man 
stepped up to the commanding officer, and said: "Say, 
let me take the place of that man yonder. He has a fam- 
ily, and he will be missed. I have no family. I will take 
his place." The commanding officer said, "You may do 
it," not dreaming there was a man in the world that 
would do such a thing. But that youth stepped up to the 
line and took hold of the man, and pushed him out and 
took his place. A moment later the command was given, 
and that youth was shot dead, and the other man was 
saved. There is a monument over there in Missouri, 
they tell me, that was erected in memory of this young 
man, with this inscription on it, "Sacred to the memory 
of Willie Lear. He took my place." 

Suppose that after Willie Lear had died for that bush- 
whacker he had still stood there and said, "I do not care 
if Willie Lear did die for me, I am the same as ever; I 
am the same rebel against the Government;" what do 
you suppose they would have done to him? The com- 
manding officer would doubtless have said: "You do not 
accept your substitute. Stand up there, sir; we will make 
an end of you quick." What do you suppose God will 
do, if the sinner does not accept the substitute? In 
infinite love God gave His precious Son; and when His 
Son was dying in unutterable agony, God the Father 



The Throbbing Heart. 41 

hid His face from the unutterable scene. I believe there 
was as much agony of soul in the Father's heart in heaven 
as there was in Jesus' heart on earth. Now, suppose that, 
after Jesus has taken the sinner's place and has died, the 
sinner says: "I do not care if Jesus did die for me. I will 
not accept the substitute, and I am the same rebel against 
God that I ever was, and I am going to continue to be." 
Do you not see the consequence? God would be obliged 
to take note of such conduct, and the thunderbolts of 
God's condemnation would fall on such a sinner's head 
in his eternal undoing. 

4. I call your attention to another fact: That the 
atoning work does not lessen the sinner's guilt; but, un- 
less he falls in with the plan of salvation, it deepens it. 
With all his sinning against such knowledge, such oppor- 
tunity, such blood-bought privileges, he is a worse sinner 
than he would have been if Jesus had never died, and the 
Word of God had never been given. 

I remember when this truth was first vividly called 
to my attention. It was when I was in college. Presi- 
dent Finney was preaching a sermon in Oberlin. It was 
the time when New York was full of riotous life. There 
had been several riots there. It was just after the war, 
and the people in New Orleans seemed to be bent on 
violence and murder. I remember President Finney say- 
ing one Sunday morning, as he stood before that cul- 
tured college audience: "The worst people in the world 
are not where people suppose they are. The worst sin- 
ners in the world are not the bloodthirsty savages. They 
are not the riotous people in the slums of New York City. 
They are not the people down there in New Orleans. I 
verily believe, before God" — and there was an awful 
hush on the audience — "that the worst sinners in the 



42 WhosobvKR. 

world are living right here in Oberlin. The sinners who 
have heard this preaching, and had all this light, and all 
this knowledge, and all this opportunity, and then reject 
the Son of God!" 

That is what Jesus said: "Woe unto you, Bethsaida 
and Capernaum; for it will be better for Tyre and Sidon 
and Sodom in the day of judgment than for you." God 
help us to understand this ! It is an awful thing to know 
the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of John, and then 
remain a rebel sinner against God. It is an awful thing! 
May God's wooing grace incline you to-night to yield 
allegiance to His Son! 

5. I close by calling your attention to this wonderful 
comparison in the text. "God so loved the world that 
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." 
Can you measure those words? Can you tell what it 
means for a man to perish, perish, PERISH? To be 
shut out into outer darkness, away from God, away 
from the redeemed, away from heaven, away from hope, 
into endless despair, for ever and ever? You know 
the law of a falling body, that a stone will drop so many 
feet in one second, sixteen, I think; thirty-two the second; 
sixty-four the third; one hundred and twenty-eight the 
next, and so on, by a constant mathematical progression. 
Sometimes they measure depths in that way. They throw 
a stone, and then listen for the sound of its fall. They tell 
us there are chasms and abysses in Mammoth Cave, Ken- 
tucky, that people go to the edge of, and hurl a stone off 
into the Stygian darkness, and then listen, and listen, and 
listen, and hold their watch and count the seconds, — 
ten — eleven — twelve — thirteen — fourteen, — and no sound 
ever comes back to report the awful depths. Cast the 



The Throbbing Hkart. 43 

plummet of your thought off into the black darkness of 
this awful word "perish." Can you tell me what it means? 
There is not a finite being in this universe that can tell 
what is before the soul that is eternally away from God. 
Take this other word, "eternal life!" Can you measure 
what that means? Can you look up into the glorious, 
towering heights of eternal joy, and love, and godliness, 
as the soul expands and grows and revels in the joys of 
the redeemed through the eternal ages, for ever and ever, 
and forever? There is not an angel before the throne 
that can tell what you and I may become in the growth of 
those eternal ages. But, O soul, you have got to have 
one or the other! One or the other! Soul, which shall 
it be? Will you reject the substitute and perish, or will 
you welcome Jesus to your heart as your Savior, and 
have eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord? 

A single illustration, and I close. Mr. Moody tells us 
that he heard in England of a son who was an only child. 
He grew up to be a wayward man. This son, by his sin, 
broke his mother's heart, and took her to a premature 
grave. Yet every night, after his mother's burial, he went 
out to his sin and debauchery. One night the father 
asked him: "Son, will you not stay with me to-night? 
You have not stayed a night at home since your mother 
died, and you know your sin killed her." The son said, 
"No, I will not." "Well," said the dear father, "you are 
too old to be forcibly restrained; but I will throw myself 
down before the door, and if you go out to-night, you 
will have to walk over the prostrate form of your plead- 
ing, loving father." That son cursed him brutally, and 
trod right over him, and went out to his debauchery and 
sin. Beloved, the man that has the Gospel of John in 
his hands, and reads the sixteenth verse of the third chap- 



44 Whosoever. 

ter, knows what he is doing. If he goes on in sin he is 
simply going on over prayers, and tears, and pleadings; 
aye, and over, as it were, the prostrate form of the Son of 
God. Do not do it! Do not do it; but to-night accept 
the substitute, believe and live. 



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III. THE TRIPLE ASSURANCE. 

"And it shall be, that whosoever shall call on the name of 
the Lord shall be saved."— Jom, n, 32 ; Acts ii, 21 ; Romans x, 13. 

There: are some truths that God is satisfied with de- 
livering once to the world; but this truth was so pro- 
foundly important that He gave it to us three times. It 
was first spoken by the mouth of the prophet Joel. Then 
it swept on down through the centuries to the time of 
Peter and the day of Pentecost ; and years afterwards the 
Apostle Paul, writing to the Romans, and through them 
to the world, repeats this same truth. "And it shall come 
to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord 
shall be saved." 

/ first call your attention to the infinite certainty of this 
truth. It shall, come to pass. Men often say it shall 
come to pass; but it does not. Even the mightiest of 
men fall short in their ability and potency, and are not 
able to bring their mighty sayings to pass. The match- 
less Hannibal said, "Rome shall be destroyed;" and he 
marched a great army from Spain across France, and 
over the Alps, and down into the plains of Italy, and won 
some wondrous battles, conquering every general that 
was brought against him. He brought his soldiers to 
the very walls of Rome, and sold dwellings and palaces 
and squares in the city of Rome to the highest bidders in 
his army. For some reason, however, he did not move 
against the city itself to take it by siege, but moved out to 
Capua. Meantime Roman gold bribed his own country- 

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46 Whosokvkr. 

men at Carthage, and they turned traitors ; and in his old 
age Hannibal was conquered. 

George the Third of England said, "It shall come to 
pass that the Colonies of America shall be taxed without 
representation;" and that mighty realm made war on 
thirteen feeble Colonies skirting the Atlantic coast, and 
living for the most part in the wilderness and on the 
frontier in sparsely-settled communities. Yet, after seven 
long years of war, George the Third had to withdraw 
from this country the soldiers who had not surrendered, 
and was compelled to acknowledge to the world his de- 
feat; and he lost the most precious jewels of the English 
crown. 

The mighty Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the mightiest 
generals who ever went to battle, said, "It shall come to 
pass that Russia shall be humbled;" and he marshaled 
the mightiest army he ever headed, and marched into 
Russia and took Moscow. For some unaccountable 
reason he tarried that autumn one month around Mos- 
cow. The Russians burnt it, that it might not afford him 
shelter. Then, after the fatal delay, he started to march 
back to France. But God Almighty sifted down six or 
eight feet of snow upon him, and those Russian Cossacks 
followed him like a pack of hungry wolves, pouncing 
down on his frost-bitten soldiers and dogging them from 
behind, by day and by night, week after week, until that 
whole army was cut off, and but a few hundreds got back 
to France to tell the story of their shame and their defeat. 

Napoleon the Third said, "It shall come to pass that 
Germany shall suffer humiliation;" and he made war 
upon Germany, hurled his troops against the Germans, 
who were all too well prepared to meet him ; and in seven 
short months he lost his crown and kingdom at the battle 



The Triple Assurance. 47 

of Sedan, and the dynasty of Napoleon was cut off 
forever. 

But, beloved, it is not so when God says, "It shall 
come to pass." He has infinite power to back up His 
words, and though the heathen rage, and the kings of the 
earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel against 
the Lord and against His anointed, and all hell lift itself 
up in malignant opposition, yet God's Word shall stand 
forever. "It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call 
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" to the glory 
of His own dear Son. O, it is a mighty truth that the 
sinner wants to lay hold of; that, when God speaks, He 
has omnipotent power back of His lightest word, and 
He can make it good, and it shall come to pass without 
fail. It has never failed during the ages, and never will 
fail until the last soul is redeemed. "It shall come to 
pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord 
shall be saved." 

Second. I want to call your attention to the infinite 
and impartial opportunity revealed in the text, "Whoso- 
ever." I am preaching these nights, you will remember, 
a "whosoever" gospel; the delight of my soul, the joy 
of my life, to preach a "whosoever" GospEE to a sinning 
world. I would be sorry to be obliged to put any limi- 
tations into my sermons, or to preach any limited atone- 
ment, or any scrimp mercy, or any small display of love 
on the part of an infinite God. It would be so unlike 
God. Everything about Him is infinite, and why not His 
loving, and why not his plans for the redemption of the 
world, and why not His love? Why should not all com- 
port with the infinity of God's own nature? The fathom- 
less depths, the measureless reach of his infinite, match- 
less love! 



48 Whosoever. 

Some people would have you believe, or at least their 
conduct seems to indicate that they think, that only nice, 
moral, respectable people can be saved. They will smile 
on the people that move in the elite circles of life, and 
run after a man whose wealth is counted by four or five 
or six ciphers. They will run after them and get them 
to attend "our" Church. They will tell what nice people 
they are, and how very refined they are, and they will say 
they will be a great acquisition to our Church. They will 
run after them, and they will run past five regiments of 
common people, and never give them a look, to get one 
of these rich people into "our Church," into "our set," 
into "our ecclesiastical swing." 

But, beloved, there is nothing like that in God Al- 
mighty. He is after man as man, after every son and 
daughter of Adam, and every member of our fallen race. 
The vilest creature that crawls, like a worm, in the cess- 
pools of city filth and corruption, is as dear to the heart 
of God, as the most refined and elegant person that you 
can find in the upper circles of city life. God is after man 
as man; and these incidental distinctions, that weigh so 
much with us, do not count at all with the blessed Lord. 
Glory be to His Name! He saves moral people; that is, 
once in a while he does, if they are not too conceited to 
let him; and he also saves the utterly broken, hopeless, 
downtrodden, if they will let him. They are a great 
deal more likely to let him save them than these proud 
upper circles are; for, from the very bitterness of their 
lives, they have found that the world can give them little. 
They look away from this unsatisfactory life up to the 
infinite realm and to the mansions that fade not away, 
which they hope to get by and by when they leave their 
earthly hovels of filth and wretchedness. The very low 



The Triple Assurance. 49 

down, the offscourings of society, are far more likely to 
be saved than the upper circles; but God would gladly 
save every one. Glory to His Name! 

There are highly respectable people, so respectable 
that they think they scarcely need to be born again. In- 
deed, they were so well born the first time, that they do 
not care anything about it. They go on and talk about 
their rank, and their ancestry, and the blue blood that flows 
in their veins; and they forget that their hearts are de- 
ceitful above all things and desperately wicked, however 
well born they may have been. Heaven does not come 
by natural inheritance. Bless the Lord! If it did, there 
would be small chance for most of us common folks. 
Jesus came down and ranked himself with the lowest 
classes. He came down to pillow His head, for the first 
time in this world, in a manger. Why, He was born 
lower down than I was. I was born in a pioneer's log 
hut in Michigan; yet it was a neat, comfortable house. 
But Jesus was born in a stable with the beasts of the 
stall ; and so I, born in a hut on the frontier of Michigan, 
actually had a higher birth than my Lord did; and I do 
not know many people who have not had. You must 
remember, too, that the Bible reveals that there were 
three or four harlots in the ancestry of Jesus. You never 
heard Jesus boasting about his ancestry, did you? Jesus 
came to get under the lowest, that in lifting He might lift 
everything in humanity up. 

There are also people who make a great deal of their 
education, and they are so conceited because they have 
spent a few years in college, and have learned a smatter- 
ing of dead languages, and one or two modern ones, that 
you can hardly get near one of them. They go along 
through life looking askance at the poor, ignorant classes, 
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50 Whosoever. 

for they think they are so low down and sunken in igno- 
rance that they can not be saved. But God does not feel 
that way. He comes down to touch the poor, to teach 
the humble, to reach the lowly, to illumine with a heav- 
enly radiance the minds of the most ignorant, and to 
flash the sunlight of his truth and joy and hope into the 
darkened souls of the people most densely benighted. 
O, it was so beautiful of God to look after the poor! It 
was so gracious in him to call the humble people around 
Him. It was so grand in Him not to invite the learned 
members of the Sanhedrim to be His disciples and His 
followers, but to go down to the Sea of Galilee and pick 
up some poor fishermen, some people that had never 
been to school, and did not know much about learning, 
and knew nothing about the upper walks of life. He 
came down to them, and said, "Follow me, and I will 
make you fishers of men;" and they became the grandest 
heralds of the cross, for. the most part, that the world 
has ever seen. 

Then some of us are so proud that we belong to the 
Caucasian race that we have a kind of despicable con- 
tempt for the darker-skinned families of the earth. O, 
this contemptible pride, this vile pride of petty little crea- 
tures, crawling around in the mire and filth of their sin- 
cursed humanity, and despising some other worm of the 
dust, because it carries a little different shade on its face! 

Three weeks ago Sunday I spoke over in Kentucky 
to an audience, and there was there a dark-skinned sister 
who was a graduate of Michigan University, the greatest 
college in America, that last year turned out a graduating 
class of seven hundred and thirty-one. Yet that dark- 
skinned sister, a friend of mine, who heard me preach 
and got sanctified three weeks ago Sunday, was in a great 



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religious meeting in Lexington a few years ago; and 
because she sat with some whiter sisters in that great 
public rink a policeman came and put her out of the 
building. There probably was not among all the cultured 
and elite in the city a woman that could have passed an 
examination with her before a Board of Educators. A 
Christian woman, a cultured woman, a woman with fine 
instincts, and fine sentiments, and fine feelings, could 
not go and sit down in an empty row of seats in a public 
building because it was not the right place in the house 
for people of her color. But, beloved, however we may 
feel about that, God does not have any such feelings. 
He tells us in the simplest language that "One is our 
Father in heaven, and all we are brethren;" and that 
"God hath made of one blood all the nations that do 
dwell upon the face of the earth." 

Again, there are people of aristocratic lineage; the 
people that were born for the upper stations ; born to be 
served by the multitude; born to look down with dis- 
dain, as many of them do, upon the common masses. 
But in the eye of God they are no dearer, and no nearer, 
and no more eligible for the favors of His grace and 
riches of His love, and the inheritance bought by the 
blood of His Son, than the most common creature that 
walks the face of the earth. Dives in his palace, and 
Lazarus lying at his gate in poverty, the dogs licking his 
sores, and begging his bread, are alike precious to the 
heart of the living God; and they have a like claim to 
the inheritance purchased by the blood of His Son. Mary 
Magdalene had the same chance at grace, though pos- 
sessed of seven devils, that Nicodemus had, cultured, 
rich, moral member of the Sanhedrim though he was ; 
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same chance to be saved that King Solomon had, sitting 
upon his throne, and living before the world in matchless 
splendor and glory. O, that is our God! Unlimited, im- 
partial in His favors of grace, dying for all, and begging 
every poor, sin-sick, weary, sin-cursed soul to look unto 
Him and be saved ! His words are, and they come down 
through the ages so sweet to our ear: "Look unto me 
and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth, for I am God, 
and beside Me there is none else." If there is a man that 
shall ever hear these words of mine, or shall ever read 
them from the printed page, I want to say to him, that if 
he feels, in his lost and undone condition, that he belongs 
to the "ends of the earth," then I tell him that God says, 
"Look unto Me, and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth." 
O, this is a blessed salvation! It is an impartial gospel 
we have to read and to preach. It is a wonderful gospel. 
I am not surprised that men leave other employments 
and honor and fame, to go about the world glorifying 
such a Savior, and preaching such a gospel to a fallen 
world. 

Now, thirdly, observe the means of GooVs deliverance. 
"Whosoever shall cali, on the name of the Lord shall 
be saved." In other words, the choicest blessings of God 
that ever fall to finite beings are given away for the ask- 
ing. "Ask and ye shall receive. Seek and ye shall find. 
Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one 
that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and 
to him that knocketh it shall be opened." One of God's 
infinite "shall be's" that come to pass. 

Thank God, salvation is not bought ! The most of the 
world is poor, hopelessly poor, even in the richest coun- 
tries on the globe. In this country, rich as it is, the 
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longing to each individual is about one thousand dollars 
apiece; and when you remember that thirty-three thou- 
sand millionaires own far more than half of the entire 
country, you can see how little there is left for the rest 
of us. The great mass of the people, if they had to pay 
one hundred dollars a piece for salvation, would go to 
hell from sheer poverty. And if that is so with us, what 
about India, where fifteen million starved to death in the 
famine two years ago in their hopeless poverty? What 
about the millions in India and China, where hundreds 
of millions always live in unappeased hunger, and do not 
know what it is, from their cradle to their grave, to have 
a month's provisions laid up for them beforehand? What 
about them? What hope would there be for the poverty- 
stricken, hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed, submerged class, 
the mass of this world, if salvation had to be bought? 
Blessed be God, Jesus bought it, and He turns around 
and gives it away to whosoever will call upon the name 
of the lyord. O ! what a gospel this is, beloved, is n't it, 
that I am preaching? And I thank God that I am not 
making it up either; it is right here. It is in the Book; 
and I am not going beyond the bounds of my commis- 
sion when I stand and throw out these words of life and 
hope to the sinking, drowning, poverty-stricken, sin- 
cursed multitudes all over the wide globe. It is God's 
message to their souls, and poverty need not keep them 
away from God. 

I remark once more that this salvation is not earned 
by good behavior. If man had to earn it by his doings, 
what would any of us do that had sinned once, even once? 
If we should never commit another sin, and should live 
absolutely perfect before God after that one sin was com- 
mitted, what then? All that after-life of righteousness 



54 Whosokver. 

would not have one particle of effect to obliterate the re- 
sult of that one sin. That one sin, unatoned for and un- 
forgiven, would damn a soul, no matter what he did 
afterwards; and so we could not by any possibility earn 
salvation. If we could, what would we be doing? Why, 
we would be performing every conceivable, imaginable 
kind of worse than Catholic penance. Self-mortification, 
self-flagellation, and infliction of tortures, to make our 
peace with God and buy His redemptive favors. I read 
only this week of a missionary that saw a poor Hindoo 
rolling over and over and over and over along a road in 
India. He had started away up near the Himalaya Moun- 
tains, and was rolling to Ceylon, fifteen hundred miles 
away ; and he had actually rolled eight hundred miles over 
and over and over, thinking that when he accomplished 
that absurd and foolish thing he would be saved. Beloved, 
if we were to-day thinking that our doings would earn 
salvation, we would be rolled back to the darkness of 
heathenism. We would be sleeping on spikes like the 
Hindoo; or we would be hanging ourselves in mid-air; 
or we would be holding our hands up over our heads 
with the fist clenched, until the nails grew through the 
hand and came out on the back side of it, as many of 
those Hindoos have done; or we would be throwing our 
babes to the crocodiles or wild beasts; or we would be 
doing some other horrible, senseless, and damnable thing 
to get peace with God. But God does not tell us to do 
anything of the kind. O no; we are not to try to buy 
salvation, and we need not try to earn it, and we need 
not try to deserve it. All we need to do is to bow before 
God, and confess our sin, and confess our shame, and call 
on the name of the Lord. 

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The; Triple: Assurance. 55 

any particular kind of call, not any particular kind of 
prayer. It is not a profoundly eloquent prayer that can 
reach the ear of God. David had poetic genius, and he 
might have written, and did write, some very beautiful 
prayers; but they were usually prayers of thanksgiving 
and praise. But when David was bowed down deep in 
shame on account of sin, he did not try to compose elo- 
quent prayers; he moaned out from the depths of a con- 
science-stricken heart, "Heal my soul, O God, for I am 
sick." That was not a long prayer. Almost any one 
could pray such a prayer as that. 

That poor publican that prayed the prayer that sent 
him down to his house justified, stood back in an obscure 
corner of the temple, and in his troubled soul he would 
not so much as lift up his eyes unto heaven, but smote 
on his breast, crying, "God be merciful to me a sinner." 
That is the kind of prayer God will answer. Peter, when 
he was sinking, cried out in the earnestness of a desperate 
need, "Lord, save, or I perish." The poor, dying thief 
on the cross, as he hung in dying agony by the side of 
the crucified Lord, had more faith than any one perhaps 
in the world at that time. When they were all giving up 
hope, he saw something kingly and royal, and more than 
human, in the dying Jesus; and in faith he sobbed out, 
"Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy king- 
dom." He got an answer, and before the sun set he 
was with his Savior in glory. O, what provisions of 
grace! The Syrophcenician woman, when her soul got 
desperately in earnest, reduced her prayer to three words, 
with nothing else about them but the eloquence of ear- 
nestness, with nothing to touch God's heart but the plea 
of helplessness. Her prayer was, "Lord, help me," 
"Lord, help me." Who can not pray that much of a 



56 Whosoever. 

prayer? and that is all God asks. It is not the length of 
the prayer, nor the eloquence of the prayer, nor the fine 
language of the prayer; but it is the sigh of a sin-stricken 
and broken-hearted soul, pleading for Divine help and 
grace which is the kind of prayer that opens heaven. 

I wish to say a few words here about what is involved 
in this praying; for there are a great many people who 
read many eloquent prayers, and they say, "Lord, have 
mercy on us miserable sinners," and they go right on liv- 
ing their miserable, sinning lives the whole week follow- 
ing. But I want to tell you that such prayers do not go 
as high as the roof. Let me show you what is involved 
in this prayer that opens heaven. First, genuine, heart- 
felt, sincere repentance of sin is involved in it. Repent- 
ance is turning away from sin, and giving it up. Repent- 
ance is feeling Divine abhorrence for guilt, as God feels 
toward it. "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the 
unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the 
Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our 
God, and He will abundantly pardon." But, beloved, 
God will not have mercy and will not pardon while a 
man clings to his unforsaken sins. 

That is the trouble with what Godbey calls the 
"devil's Churches." The preachers do not tell them in 
straight out-and-out language that they have to forsake 
sin and walk with God. They smile on their worldliness; 
they smile on their wretched, wicked customs. They do 
not preach the religion of one hundred cents to the dol- 
lar, and sixteen ounces to the pound, and purity of heart 5 
and holiness of life, and separation from the world. The 
people are going to Church, reading their liturgies and 
enjoying themselves, while their paid opera-singers are 
singing the praises of God for them, because they are 



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too lazy to sing themselves ; and they have a sweet, little 
sermon preached to them; a little, lavender-scented gos- 
pel; a little sermonette. And the result is, they are 
fanned and coddled and patted and flattered, and waited 
upon, and sent off to hell by a palace-car on the limited 
express. By the way, I heard a man say that a sermon- 
ette was a good thing for a Christianette who was going 
to a heavenette. But, for my part, I would rather have 
sermons an hour long, that are red-hot and crammed full 
of gospel, and have purity in the pulpit and in the pew, 
and have them all get to heaven together, sweeping 
through the gates, washed in the blood of the Lamb. 

Well, this kind of prayer also involves heart-faith. 
There is so much of the devil's counterfeit in religion 
nowadays, and you have to explain every term you use, 
and get it down to the gospel bedrock of truth. Some 
people in this city will read in the Catechism that there 
is a Trinity in the Godhead, just as they read ancient his- 
tory; and they say, "Yes, we believe that." They believe 
that just as they believe that Julius Caesar lived. They 
read in the Catechism that Jesus died for them. "Yes, 
they believe that," just as they believe that Julius Caesar 
was stabbed to death in the senate-house, and the one 
truth does not affect them any more than the other. 
There is not one thing in it that will shape the heart and 
move the soul to righteousness. 

But the faith that pleases God, the faith implied in 
my text, is the kind of faith that would take a cursing, 
swearing, lying Peter, and make him a holy man. It is 
the kind of faith that would take the persecuting Saul, 
and transform him into the holy, gentle, Christlike Paul. 
It is the kind of faith that would take seven devils out of 
Mary Magdalene, and fill her with the Spirit of Jesus 



58 Whosoever. 

Christ. It is the kind of faith that would take publicans 
and harlots, and make them fit companions for Jesus 
Christ, of whom Jesus said, "He is not ashamed to call 
them brethren." That is the kind of faith — the faith that 
does something in the heart and the life. But ninety-nine 
hundredths of the keepers of the houses of iniquity and 
sin all over this country are Church members, and they 
will tell you, "Why, I believe; yes, I believe, I believe." 
A little intellectual head belief, that never touched the 
springs of moral action; never lifted them up into the 
bosom of Jesus; did not bring them to repentance; to 
the forsaking of sin; to the walking with God; to the 
dedication of their lives to His service; but leaves them 
still in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity! 
Beloved, I am not preaching the devil's counterfeit con- 
version, or the devil's counterfeit prayers, or any form 
of the devil's counterfeit religion ; but I am preaching the 
calling upon God for salvation that goes down to the 
depths of the soul, that brings Christ in, and casts the 
devil out, and brings victory and joy and hope and heaven 
to the soul. That is the kind of prayer you want to pray, 
and that is the kind of prayer that God answers, and he 
answers with an uttermost salvation. 

Now, I come to the last truth of my text. Fourth, 
notice the kind of deliverance. He delivers from every 
form of sin that afflicts a child of God, and every form of 
evil, too. Why, God can bring temporal blessings in 
answer to prayer as much as is for our good. Deacon 
Edgerton, of the leading Congregational Church in St. 
Louis, for many years one of the most beneficent givers 
when he had money, one day got in a financial strait. 
He had to raise ten thousand dollars before noon or be 
bankrupt, and he had done everything, and pulled every 



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string, and gone tcr every place, and sought every human 
helper, that he could know of, and could not get help. 
He hastened over to his pastor, and said: "Pastor, I am 
at the end of human help, so far as I can see. I must have 
help before noon, or become a bankrupt. Let us pray." 
And they knelt down in prayer, and at eleven o'clock, 
one hour before the ten thousand dollars was needed, a 
man from whom he never expected anything, brought 
him ten thousand dollars, and tided him over that crisis. 

Washington Allston was the first great painter this 
country ever produced. He went to England and painted 
some very fine paintings. I have seen one painting of 
his that they said was sold for ten thousand dollars. But 
somehow the pictures did not sell well for a time, and 
he had gone in debt at the stores to support his family, 
until the merchants had all refused to assist him. He was 
in awful straits. He was not a Christian. Most of the 
country at that time was in infidelity; very few Christians 
comparatively. Only one person in fourteen was a pro- 
fessed Christian at that time in this country. But he 
locked himself up one day in despair in his studio, and 
prayed this prayer: "O God, if there be a God, send some 
one to buy my pictures, that my wife and children may 
not be obliged to starve for the want of bread." While 
he was praying there was a knock at the door, and a 
servant of Lord Stafford stood there, and he said, "Is 
your Angel Uriel sold?" "No, sir." "Well, here is a 
check for two thousand dollars for that picture from Lord 
Stafford," and the prayer was heard. 

These are only some examples of what is occurring 
all around us. I could name to you people who come to 
these meetings who depend upon God for daily bread 
and for every little thing that comes to them; and one 



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lady said: "It is so sweet to trust in God, and to see His 
wondrous deliverances. I never need a thing but what 
He brings it, and when the last thing is gone and the 
last money is gone, God always comes to the rescue." 
There was Spurgeon who ran an Orphanage, and some- 
times they did not know where the breakfast was to come 
from. One night Spurgeon was telling God all about it. 
"Lord, what shall become of the dear children? You 
have put this work on my hands and on my heart, and 
there the children are, and we want some help." And 
while Spurgeon was praying that prayer, there was a man 
walking back and forth in the street, strangely impressed 
that he ought to go in and give the man in that house 
some money. He did not understand it; but he went in 
and gave a large sum of money, several hundred pounds, 
to Spurgeon, because God would not let him get by that 
house in the street of London until he did it. O, God has 
got His hand on things, and the people that learn to pray 
for the necessities of life get them! Most of us do not. 
We do not know how; we have not taken a full course 
in the school of prayer. We are only in the primer, when 
God wants us to go on into the higher languages of prayer, 
and into the philosophy of prayer, and into the political 
economy of prayer, and learn to pray down a mighty bless- 
ing from God when we need it. Look at Miiller's life of 
trust. Running an Orphanage in England, and caring 
for the poor, and without any asking of other people for 
money, praying seven million dollars into his coffers to 
feed and educate orphans. A life of prayer and a life 
of trust ! A life baptized with the Holy Spirit, and work- 
ing wonders for God! Beloved, that is the way the most 
effective missionary work in the world is being run to- 
day. Hudson Taylor is running a great missionary work 



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in China, and has seven hundred missionaries under him, 
and he supports them, and he does not advertise it or 
ask for money ; but the money comes, and the seven hun- 
dred missionaries have been supported. Well, there is 
something in prayer, is n't there? 

Let us go on. It is a good thing to pray in national 
troubles. I remember how Washington, when his sol- 
diers could be tracked across the snow at Yorktown by 
the blood from their bare feet, and he had a country that 
was in peril, was seen one day or night out in the bushes 
alone, kneeling in the snow of winter and pleading the 
wants of his country before God. You remember the 
darkest hours of the War of the Rebellion, when it 
seemed more than problematical whether the Nation 
could live; and you remember a guest was staying over 
night in the White House. He heard a sound in the 
night, and he opened his door and listened, and it was 
Abraham Lincoln kneeling in prayer, and he was praying 
in the most wondrous way. This guest walked into the 
room and knelt down by the side of Abraham Lincoln, 
as he poured out the agony of his soul, and told God he 
could not carry the burden of the great Nation, and God 
must help him and save this land to liberty and the cause 
of truth. O, it was then that the tide turned, and God 
brought deliverance. It pays to take things, large and 
small, to God in prayer. 

God heals diseases in answer to prayer. This congre- 
gation does not need to hear this. You are taught that 
this is true; but through the reporters' work these words 
shall go forth, I know not where; and I want to put on 
record here my faith that the God that worked the mir- 
acles of healing in the olden days is living still, and the 
Jesus of Nazareth, though unseen, is treading the earth. 



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He is coming to rebuke fever, and to drive away infirm- 
ities, and to make the physically sick well once more. 
Let me give you some illustrations. When I was 
pastor in Allegheny City, there was a man who was a 
member of a Methodist Church only two squares from 
my Church. He was a Christian man; but there came 
over his lower limbs a creeping paralysis, and he doctored 
and doctored with many physicians. The last physician at- 
tended him six months ; and finally he said, "Brother, do 
not waste another dollar on a physician, for you are hope- 
lessly helpless in your lower limbs for life." About that 
time a lady was speaking in Christ Methodist Episcopal 
Church over in Pittsburg about Divine healing. Some 
of his friends urged him to go there. He said I have no 
faith in it; but I will go over there and listen if you will 
get me there. He went over and listened ; and somehow, 
as he heard the dear sister talk, God's Spirit opened the 
truth and increased the faith of the poor man, and he 
went home as best they could get him home that night. 
He got up-stairs by the help of his wife and his crutches, 
and to his bed. He put his crutches in a corner, and 
then, lying helpless on the bed, he laid his case before 
God, and went to sleep. The next morning his wife got 
up as usual, and went down to get the breakfast; and 
while she was getting it he woke up, and the moment he 
awoke he knew he was healed. He leaped from his bed 
and dressed himself partially, and ran pell-mell down to 
the kitchen shouting, "Glory to God! Glory to God!" 
and scared his wife half out of her senses. She ought n't 
to have been scared, a good Methodist you know; but 
she was. That is only one instance, and I could give 
you any quantity of instances that have come under my 
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I was holding revival-meetings in a town in Northern 
Ohio, and there was a woman who came to my meetings 
every day, and I went to her home for a meal to talk with 
her about her healings. The neighbors said I could be- 
lieve every word she told me; it was wonderful. She 
said she had got doubled up with rheumatism until it 
took her half an hour to go ten rods to call on a neighbor. 
She could only step about three inches at a step, and she 
was nearly bent double. She doctored with the most 
famous physicians of the county, and they had all given 
her up. One day, when her boy was down town, she 
took the matter to God in prayer, and was healed. She 
was walking around the house when the boy came in, 
and he was so frightened that he got behind the stove, 
thinking it could not be his mother, and must be the devil 
or a ghost. "My son, you need not be afraid," she said, 
"it is your mother; and God has healed her." 

A minister filled my pulpit one Sunday morning, and 
told me this at my dinner table. "I used to preach in 
Iowa; and I had the consumption, and the doctors had 
given me up to die, and I was so far gone that I could 
not speak except in a whisper. One Sunday the whole 
Church filed by my bedside to take their last look at their 
pastor, and bid me good-bye. I whispered the good-byes 
to all of them, expecting to be dead before another Sab- 
bath. After it was all over and I was alone, God put 
this thought into my heart, "And they saw no man, but 
Jesus only;" and lying there all helpless, and feeling that 
I ought not to go away from my ministry and die in the 
middle of my life, I just looked in faith to Jesus, and 
rose up from that bed. The next Sunday I preached in 
my pulpit, and I have been preaching every Sunday 
since." O, beloved, God can do wonderful things! God 



64 Whosoever. 

can break the spell of physical sickness in answer to 
prayer. 

At a camp-meeting in Kentucky last summer I took 
tea one evening with three ministers. One of them, Rev. 

E. J. T , of M , told me he was sick twelve years 

with epilepsy. In his fearful convulsions he had often 
nearly died; and three times he had been laid out for dead. 

One Miss L , of C , prayed for him, and he was 

healed in two minutes. This story was corroborated by 
one of the other ministers. 

When I was pastor of Olivet College Church, in 
Olivet, Michigan, Professor Joseph Esterbrook was a 
perpetual joy to my soul. He was a man of rare spiritual 
power, and the sweet odor of his piety made the religious 
atmosphere fragrant far and near. He was one of the 
best known Christian men in the State. This was the 
secret of it. About forty years before, he was dying with 
a cancer, which the whole medical faculty of Michigan 
University pronounced incurable. He then sought and 
obtained of the Lord a genuine baptism with the Holy 
Ghost. God not only cleansed his heart, but healed his 
body, and he lived just forty years. He had got near 
enough to Jesus of Nazareth to touch the hem of His 
garment, and virtue from the Son of man had gone into 
both his body and his soul. I have no theories on this 
subject; but I have seen so many cases divinely healed, 
that I know the Great Physician of Nazareth still lives; 
and for me to doubt that he can and does yet heal in 
answer to prayer would be a sin. 

God can break the spell of physical appetites in an- 
swer to prayer. There are a great many sinners who say, 
"I am a drunkard, or I have got the tobacco habit on me ; 



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I can not break off." But there is no "can't" about it, if 
they will link their impotence to God's omnipotence, and 
let Him do the work for them. I tell you, if the bonds of 
appetite and passion will not break, when the soul touches 
God they do break. God can do it; He does do it. God 
does forgive the sinner, and cleanses his soul. 

I have had gamblers converted in my meetings. I 
have had a lost woman converted in my meeting. It was 
the first night she heard me preach; and I magnified the 
grace of God, and said there was enough for everybody, 
and that no one could exhaust it; and she said to herself, 
if there is any such Savior and any such salvation as that, 
I will go and try Jesus to-night. She went to the inquiry- 
room. She was never absent a single night after that 
during the series of meetings. Some time after, I heard 
from that same town, and that she had joined the Church, 
and was as sweet and good as any one. O, God can save 
everybody who will simply repent, and call and believe! 
"It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the 
name of the Lord shall be saved." 

A year ago last winter I was preaching in Chicago. 
I saw people — hardened sinners — kneel on the stone floor 
in Chicago jail, and give themselves to Jesus. I saw the 
most profligate sinners kneel in the missions before the 
Lord, and seek and obtain salvation. I met two remark- 
able Christian men who were called the twin Toms, as 
they had both been rescued from the lowest depths four 
years before. 

One of them, Tom Mackey, of Star of Hope Mission, 
started in life as a bareback-rider in a circus. Then he 
became a light-weight pugilist. Then he became a gam- 
bler; then a drunkard. Then he went about the country 
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with a bulldog getting up dog-fights. He went lower 
and lower, till he became what they call in Chicago "a 
barrel-house bum." He picked up tobacco stubs in the 
streets, keeping one coat-pocket for wet stubs, and one 
for dry. 

One day in a drunk he tried to kill his wife; and not 
succeeding, he started down Van Buren Street to drown 
himself in Lake Michigan. He passed by Pacific Garden 
Mission, and slept in his drunken stupor while the 
preacher preached. He waked up in time to hear the 
wonderful testimonies of the saved men. His heart was 
touched, and he lifted his hand, covered with a filthy, 
ragged sleeve, for prayer, and he was saved January 2, 
1894. He went home and led his wife to Jesus ; and since 
then they have been at the head of Star of Hope Mission. 
He has planted six missions, into which hundreds are 
converted yearly, and it is said that his converts already 
belt the globe. 

The other man, up to forty years of age, was a notori- 
our criminal, who had never earned an honest dollar. 
He had been an inmate of nearly all the famous prisons 
of this country and England. He got so low that he 
swept the walks in front of Chicago saloons for soup to 
keep from starving; and for three weeks he went to Pa- 
cific Garden, and sat up all night in a chair by the fire 
to keep from freezing. But he got converted in 1894, and 
now is associate editor of the Ram's Horn, one of the most 
effective Christian papers in the country. 

I heard him speak in the mission, holding his babe 
in his arms. His wife told me that now he is a beautiful 
Christian man in his home, and all that he seems to be 
to the public. He said to me, "When I came to Christ I 



The Triple Assurance. 67 

had nothing but a dirty shirt and a bundle of sins." He 
is author of the following hymn : 

"HE TOUCHED ME, AND THUS MADE ME WHOLE." 

To the feet of my Savior in trembling and fear, 

A penitent sinner I came ; 
He saw, and in mercy he bade me draw near, 

All glory and praise to his name ! 

Cho. He touched me and thus made me whole, 
Bringing comfort and rest to my soul; 
O, glad, happy, all my sins rolled away, 
For he touched me and thus made me whole. 

I knew not the tender compassion and love, 

That Jesus my Savior had shown ; 
Though burdened with grief, his dear hand brought relief, 

He healed me and called me his own. 

" My grace is sufficient," I heard his dear voice. 
"O, come, and find rest for your soul; 
From sin you to save, I my life freely gave, 
I died that you might be made whole." 

O! come my dear brother; he 's waiting for you, 

Your sin-burdened heart to console ; 
Your weary head rest on his dear loving breast, 

He suffered and died for your soul. 

O, the wondrous grace that can take a poor jail-bird, 
steeped in guilt and lost to shame, and make him a Chris- 
tian editor, and put such a song in his heart, even praise 
to our God! The text is true. Blessed be the name of 
the Lord! "It shall come to pass that whosoever shall 
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." 

A physician in Portland says that one Sunday night 
he was leaning on his hand in his office, studying a very 
critical case; and while he was in that attitude, just at 



68 Whosoever. 

the eventide, there was a knock at the door, and a fallen 
girl from a house of sin right under the shadows of a 
church near by said, "Doctor, come; Nellie is worse." 
I hastened over to the side of the poor, dying girl, dying 
from sin; and she looked up into my face, and said, "Doc- 
tor, is there no help for me?" "No, Nellie, you are past 
human help. Shall I not call a minister to come and see 
you?" "O doctor, do not leave me. I want you to stay 
with me;" and just then the organ broke out, and they 
sang a sweet, familiar hymn in the church near by, known 
to the girl in childhood. As the sound wafted through 
the open windows and to the dying girl's ear, she list- 
ened, and the tears began to trickle down her cheeks, 
and she said: "O, would God I was a little innocent girl 
again at my mother's knee! Doctor, pray for me." He 
said: "It seemed as if the weight of a thousand worlds 
came on me; and though I was not a Christian, I got 
down and told Jesus all about it, and begged Him to see 
the tears of penitence and have mercy on the sinning girl. 
A light came into her face, and the peace of God settled 
upon her countenance, and she expressed her hope. But 
pretty soon she became delirious, and I knew the end was 
near. She thought in her delirium that she was back 
again at mother's knee, and she was saying her infant 
prayer, and she prayed: 

'Now I lay me down to sleep, 
I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; 
If I should die before I wake, 
I pray the Lord my soul to take, 
And this I ask for Jesus' sake. 

O Lord, bless papa and mamma and little Nellie. 
Amen!'" He said: "I could almost hear the rustle of 



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the angels' wings as they swept down into that room to 
carry the girl home, and she passed away with a radiant 
look of a redeemed child upon her face. But O," he 
said, "the prayer that brought peace to Nellie, brought an 
unutterable burden to my own soul; and I went to my 
office, in all my morality and good standing, and got 
down on my knees and prayed to Nellie's Savior, and 
asked Him to be my Savior, too." And he said: "There 
is a light coming into my heart in answer to that prayer, 
that is the beginning of the eternal day of heaven." Be- 
loved, it is true. "It shall come to pass that whosoever 
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." O, 
call, call. Whatever be your need, in body or soul, 

Call, CALL IN PENITENCE, CALL IN FAITH. Call. CALL, 

and God will make good his promise, and "it shall come 
to pass." You shall be saved. 



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IV. THE TWO GREAT NECESSITIES. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born anew, 
he can not see the kingdom of God." — John hi, 3. 

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even 
so must the Son of man be lifted up ; that whosoever believeth 
may in him have eternal life."— John hi, 14, 15. 

"Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification 
without which no man shall see the Lord." — Hebrews xii, 14. 

These) passages of Scripture tell us of two things 
that are absolutely necessary to eternal life and admission 
to heaven. This is not my gospel ; I am not called upon 
to make a Bible. It is my business to preach it. The 
Bible is made; and all that is included in my call is to 
preach it and live it. These passages show us that we 
must be born again, and we must be sanctified, or we can 
not enter into heaven; and they also tell us how we can 
be born again. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in 
the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up ; 
that whosoever believeth may in Him have eternal life/' 
A great many people do not like to hear this gospel 
preached. Multitudes do not like to hear anything about 
regeneration, and a great many more people still do not 
like to hear that anything is necessary beyond regener- 
ation. They would like to have sanctification put out 
of the Bible. They deny all necessity of holiness. They 
even go so far as to deny the possibility of leading a 
sanctified and holy life in this world; and it seems to me 
that when they do that, they come perilously near incur- 
ring that curse brought upon the man that takes anything 
from the Word of life, recorded over there in the last 
verses of the Bible. I did not make the Bible; the Bible 

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The Two Great Necessities. 71 

is given me by the Lord; and I am glad that I am not 
so afloat that I have to make a Bible to suit myself. I 
take the one God has made, and that is what I preach 
unto you to-night. 

Some people call this double gospel of conversion or 
regeneration and sanctification a new-fangled doctrine. 
Well, beloved, it is not as new as those people think it 
is. Let me show you it is not. Over in the fifteenth 
chapter of Genesis, the sixth verse, you read: "And 
Abram believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 
for righteousness." There was Abram's justification, 
the first blessing. He was converted, he was born again. 
But over in the seventeenth chapter of Genesis, the first 
verse, you read God says to Abram, "I am God Al- 
mighty; walk before me and be thou perfect," and there 
Abram got his call to the second blessing, which he 
accepted, and had his name changed, representing a 
change in the innermost character of his soul. His name 
was changed from Abram to Abraham; and, moreover, 
he had the rite of circumcision given to him, typical of 
the inbred cleansing of his heart. 

You turn over to the story of Jacob, and you find 
Jacob met God at Bethel, and there he saw the angels 
of God ascending and descending the ladder, and there 
Jacob made his vow and gave himself to God. That was 
the beginning of his spiritual life. He called it Bethel, 
"none other than the house of God and the gate of 
heaven." But twenty or more years afterwards you find 
Jacob wrestling at Peniel. He meets God again, and he 
wrestles with the angel all night until break of day, and 
will not let him go until he gets the blessing. And he 
gets the second blessing, and his name is changed from 
Jacob the Supplanter to Israel, a Prince of God. 



^2 Whosoever. 

You turn over to Isaiah, and you find Isaiah was a 
beautiful servant of God, a lovely man in his religious 
life; a man whose bosom glowed with the fervors of piety. 
God's mouthpiece he was to a whole nation; and yet in 
the sixth chapter we read that one day he got a vision 
of God, and the cherubim and seraphim bowing before 
him, and veiling their faces with their wings, and crying 
out, " Holy ! holy ! holy is the Lord God Almighty; the 
whole earth is full of His glory." And Isaiah was so 
profoundly impressed by that vision, that he fell before 
God and cried: "Woe is me! for I am undone; because I 
am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a 
people of unclean lips : for mine eyes have seen the King, 
the Lord of hosts." He was so profoundly impressed 
with the holiness of heaven and its Sovereign that he 
said to himself: "I am not fit for that place. I am not 
holy. Woe, woe is me!" And then an angel came with 
a live coal from off the altar, and touched his lips and 
said, "Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is 
purged." That live coal of fire was a type of the Holy 
Spirit that came to Isaiah ; and Isaiah's iniquity was taken 
away, and his sin was purged. His heart was cleansed, 
and then God said to him, "Whom shall I send?" and 
Isaiah replies, "Here am I, send me." He is ready now 
to go on God's mission. He is ready to speak God's 
messages. He felt, as we sing nowadays, whether we feel 
it or not: 

" I '11 go where you want me to go, dear Lord, 
Over mountain or plain or sea , 
I '11 say what you want me to say, dear Lord ; 
I '11 be what you want me to be." 

Isaiah was ready, because his heart had got the second 
blessing. 



The Two Great Necessities. 73 

You turn over to the New Testament, and you find 
that Jesus had some disciples. They had followed Him 
three and a half years; they had forsaken all to follow 
Him. They had been commissioned to preach His 
gospel, and work miracles in His name. Do you tell me 
that God ever called a child of the devil to preach His 
gospel? I tell you, nay, nay. They were Christian men; 
they had given their hearts to God; they had turned from 
sin; they were followers of Jesus. Jesus said Himself 
that all had followed Him in the regeneration. He also 
said, "Your names are written in heaven;" and He also 
said in His intercessory prayer, "These are not of the 
world, even as I am not of the world." We have infallible 
testimony that they were children of God; and yet they 
are not what God wants them to be. He wants them to 
have the second blessing; and so He tells them to tarry 
in Jerusalem until they are endued with power from on 
high, "The promise of the Father, which, says he, ye 
shall receive not many days hence." We read in Acts, 
second chapter, that the Holy Ghost did come upon 
them, and they were new men in Christ Jesus. Their 
hearts were changed, for all inbred sin was taken out of 
them. 

You turn over to Acts, eighth chapter, and you find 
that Deacon Philip went down to Samaria and preached 
to the people ; and there were a great many converts, and 
they were baptized and joined the Church. Were they 
not Christians? But as soon as the apostles at Jerusalem 
heard of it, what did they do? They immediately sent 
Peter and John over to Samaria, post-haste, that they 
might go and instruct them about receiving the second 
blessing, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. There is the 
second blessing again. 



74 Whosoever. 

You turn over to Acts, tenth chapter, and you find 
there was Cornelius, a Centurion, a devout man who 
feared God, who prayed always, who gave alms, and Peter 
himself testified, and said, " I perceive that whosoever 
feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with 
Him." Here was Cornelius, then, a man with all these 
characteristics. Why, if you had such a man in the 
Presbyterian Church, or Baptist Church, or Methodist 
Church here in the city, you would want to make him an 
elder, a deacon, a Sabbath-school superintendent, or 
something or other. You would put him in the best 
office in the Church. Such a grand man, walking with 
God, and giving alms and praying and fasting and fear- 
ing God! You would say, "What more do you want?' 
Well, God wanted him to have something more; and 
He took the pains to give Cornelius a vision; and He 
gave Peter a vision, so that he would not hesitate about 
going to a Gentile's house. And Peter goes and speaks 
to Cornelius; and while he is speaking the Holy Ghost 
falls; and we find Peter telling this wondrous incident 
years afterward in Jersusalem, saying that "God gave 
them the Holy Ghost even as He did unto us, . . . 
cleansing their hearts by faith." 

You turn over to Acts, nineteenth chapter, and you 
find out that Apollos, a noted orator, has come to 
Ephesus and preached his best, and has organized a 
Church with twelve men. I suppose there were twenty- 
four women, if it was then as the Church is now, two 
women to one man. But we will assume that there were 
twenty-four women, twelve men anyway; and by and by 
Paul comes along, and the first question Paul asked was, 
"Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" 
"The what?" "The Holy Ghost; have ye received the 



The Two Great Necessities. 75 

Holy Ghost?" "Why, we have not as much as heard 
whether there is a Holy Ghost or not." That is what is 
the trouble with the Churches to-day. Plenty of 
Churches to-day do not know that there is any Holy 
Ghost, and that they need to be sanctified by Him, and 
do need the second blessing. But some Churches are 
finding out so much, that they think they do not need 
the first blessing. However, the first thing Paul did was 
to instruct them, and see to it that they were baptized 
with the Holy Ghost. 

So you see, beloved, that I am not preaching a new- 
fangled doctrine. I am preaching a gospel as old as the 
days of the apostles; I am preaching a gospel as old as 
the days of Isaiah ; I am preaching a gospel as old as the 
days of Father Jacob; and yea, two generations back of 
him, as old as Father Abram. This is no new gospel; 
but it is the living gospel of the infinite God, that fills 
the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. People do not 
like to hear it. I was talking one time with a banker's 
wife, and she said to me: "Mr. Hills, I think the time will 
come when you ministers will give up preaching the ne- 
cessity of conversion, or regeneration, or the new birth, 
or whatever you call it. I do not see anything in it." 
Give it up? Yes, we will when we give up Jesus as the 
ultimate authority in matters of morals and religion. 
Give it up? Yes, we will, when we get too big and too 
conceited to preach the message which God Almighty 
has given us to preach. Give it up? Yes, we will, when 
we get so contemptible that we will fawn on bankers and 
bankers' wives for what such fawning will bring; but 
I want to say to you that as long as we are honest souls, 
sincere and manly men in the pulpit, we will preach the 
gospel as God has given it to us, whether men like to 



76 Whosoever. 

hear it or not. It is not my business to preach a gospel 
that every one wants to hear. It is my business to .preach 
what people need to hear, and what they ought to hear, 
and what God has given me to preach; and that I pro- 
pose to preach. 

Now, I want to show you reasons why it is necessary 
to be born again and sanctified, and how the two bless- 
ings may be received. 

First, I remark, man must be born again and cleansed 
by the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost, because of 
what man is. Man, by nature, is not like God. He does 
not know God. He does not enjoy God. He does not 
enjoy God's truth; he does not enjoy God's people or 
God's Church. "What!" you say. "Those are pretty 
hard charges." I know it; and the worst thing about it 
is they are so awfully true. Why, beloved, do you not 
know if men liked God's Church all you would have to 
do would be to build churches and throw open the doors, 
and invite the public to come in, and they would throng 
in and crowd the churches. Do they do it? Do they do 
it? You go around to the churches of your city, and 
the mission halls to-night or to-morrow night, and see 
how large the audience is where God is preached, and 
do the same Sunday night; and then just ask yourself 
how crowded would the theaters be with the people, if they 
were free as the churches? Why is it that the theaters 
would be filled, and the churches of your city two-thirds 
empty? The reason is, people do not like God's truth, 
and they do not like God's people, and they do not like 
God's Church; but they do like sin, and to sinful places 
and sinful amusements they go. If people liked the 
Bible by nature, all you would have to do would be to 
print Bibles and throw them out broadcast over the 



The Two Great Necessities. 77 

earth, and people would read that Book as they would 
no novel that was ever printed ; and as the truth unfolded 
to them, they would bow right down and worship the 
God that the Bible reveals. Do they do it? Plenty of 
families in the city have no Bible; and multitudes of peo- 
ple do not read the Book if they have one. The dust of 
neglect covers it so you could write your name on it. 
They read everything else — the novel, the slush of the 
daily papers, good, bad, and indifferent; but the Bible is 
the neglected Book of books. God help us to under- 
stand that people do not enjoy the Bible by nature! 

As I said a moment ago, people do not love God by 
nature. You think that is an awful charge; but is it not 
true? If they loved God, all you would have to do would 
be to make known God to the people, and at once they 
would fall down on their faces, as the angels do, and 
prayers would rise as sweet incense before the throne of 
God. Is that the way people treat God? Why, the city 
is full of people who have hurled their blasphemous oaths 
into God's ears all day; and they use the very breath God 
has given them to blaspheme His name. Multitudes 
would banish God from the universe, if they could do it. 
O, the world is bad, and men do not love God, and they 
are never going to love God until they are born again 
of the Holy Spirit! 

I sometimes illustrate this truth in this way. There 
is in the British Museum a little vase about ten inches 
high, called the Portland vase. It is made of blue glass, 
and covered with transparent enamel, and carved to rep- 
resent the marriage of the father of Achilles to the god- 
dess Thetis. It was found by Alexander Severus in an 
Etruscan tomb; was taken out and emptied of the ashes 
of the dead, for that is what it contained, and it was re- 



78 Whosoever. 

filled with the ashes of one of his dead, and sealed up in 
a magnificent sarcophagus, and there it was found in the 
sixteenth century, perfect as it was when it was made, 
one thousand years before Christ was born. It is one of 
the priceless gems of antiquity. No money would buy 
it to-day. In 1845 a group of people stood admiring that 
vase and talking about it, and a poor drunken wretch 
came along and hurled a rock at it, and shattered it into 
a number of pieces. He was hustled off to prison with 
the execrations of the civil authorities, and the best art- 
ists of the realm were brought together to see if they 
could restore that vase. They took transparent cement, 
and experimented by putting bit by bit together, and 
they believe they have restored it as it was. Now, that 
gives you my illustration. The human race was intended 
by God Almighty to bear His image, and reflect His 
likeness and His glory; and every one of us is expected 
to reflect back into God's face a perfect image of a per- 
fect man. But Satan, drunk with envy at the Son of God, 
hurled his temptation at our race, and shattered the image 
of God in every human soul. There is just one Artist 
in the universe that can take the broken fragments of our 
sin-cursed, ruined nature, and restore it to the likeness of 
God; and that Artist is the Holy Ghost. Therefore God 
says, "Ye must be born of the Spirit and ye must be 
sanctified by the Spirit." 

Second. I remark that we must be born again by 
the Spirit and sanctified by the Spirit before we can 
enjoy the kingdom of God because of what the kingdom 
is. If the kingdom of God were meat and drink, savage 
gluttons would be just fitted for it. That is what they 
would like. If it were a business realm, a schooling in 
Paris or New York or Chicago Stock Exchange would 



The Two Great Necessities. 79 

just fit a man for it. He would be trained by business 
to enjoy the kingdom. If it were a realm of art, then 
studying in the Vatican gallery amidst the masterpieces 
of the world would just fit a man for it. If it were a 
realm of science, then sitting at the feet of Darwin or 
Tyndall or Huxley would fit a man for it. But the 
apostle Paul says it is not meat or drink, and he might 
have added, nor business, nor art, nor science. What is 
it? "The kingdom of heaven is not meat and drink; but 
righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost;" and 
until the soul is spiritual enough to enjoy righteousness 
and enjoy the Holy Ghost himself, he is not fit for heaven, 
and he could not by any possibility enjoy heaven. 

Do you ever ask yourself what a gambler's heaven 
would be like? Why, a gambler's heaven would be a 
Monte Carlo or a Saratoga or a New Orleans gambling- 
house, where men could ever play with loaded dice or 
marked cards, and fleece their victims, and gratify the 
gambler's passion. For that he will turn away from his 
manhood and his family and his home and all that man 
ought to hold dear and precious. He will leave it all to 
gratify that passion. 

Did you ever ask yourself what a drunkard's heaven 
would be like? It would be one of your infernal saloons, 
where the man could forever hear the jingle of the saloon 
furnishings; where he could drink and drink and drink, 
and forever gratify the drunkard's quenchless thirst. For 
that he will take the food from his hungry children's 
stomachs. He will take the clothes from his wife's back, 
and the roof that shelters them from the winter's storm, 
and he will add to that his own manhood and health and 
wealth and reputation. He will stake it all on that appe- 
tite for drink. An infernal saloon is the heaven that man 



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is fitting for. Did you ever ask yourself what an impure 
man's heaven would be like? An Oriental harem infin- 
itely prolonged. That is all the vile leper is fitting for. 
But O, because our heaven that God reveals to us is not 
like these, but is a holy place for a holy people, therefore 
men full of impurity and the taint and curse of sin must 
be born anew, and made holy by the Holy Spirit, or they 
can never enter the heaven of God. 

I remark, third, that man must have these changes 
that my text tells about before he can enter or see or 
enjoy the kingdom of God because of what God is. Be- 
cause of what God is. Most people have a very low 
idea of heaven. They think heaven is a place, just a 
place; and the greatest joy in heaven will be meeting 
Mary or John who has gone over on the other side; but 
O, I told you a moment ago that heaven is a prepared 
place for a prepared people: and the greatest joy of 
heaven will not be meeting our loved ones over there, 
precious as that is; but it will be God himself. He is the 
glory of heaven, and He is the chief joy of heaven, and 
unless a soul can enjoy God himself, he can not see the 
kingdom of God. 

Let me make this plain by some illustrations. I re- 
member the last time my old grandfather visited my child- 
hood home in Western Michigan, where I was born. He 
was a godly old man, a deacon of a Congregational 
Church in New York. He liked to talk about religious 
things. He was more spiritual than my father, and his 
favorite theme of conversation was God and Jesus and 
heaven and things of that kind. I remember one day 
my father asked him, "Well, father, what are you going 
to do when you get to heaven?" I shall never forget 
how the old man jumped from his chair, his white locks 



The Two Great Necessities. 8i 

streaming back like a halo of glory, and he lifted his 
hands with his characteristic gesture, and looked up and 
said, "My son, my son, I will spend the first thousand 
years of eternity looking at the face of Jesus." There 
was a man getting ripe for heaven. It would be just 
heaven for him to stand and look at that face down which 
the blood-drops trickled from the thorn crown, a thou- 
sand years. Do you know what that means? If you do 
not, you need the work of the Holy Ghost on your heart. 

When President Finney was holding revival-meetings 
in Central New York, at the time of his greatest useful- 
ness, he was one night awakened from his sleep in the 
dead of the night. He rose up on his bed, and listened 
to see what it was that had awakened him. It was a 
godly woman praying in the next room, and he heard 
her say, "O, the holiness of God!" and a second time, 
"O, the holiness of God!" and then a third time, "O, the 
holiness of God!" Her very soul was ravished in con- 
templation of the holiness of God. She was getting ready 
for heaven. 

Twenty-five years ago a godly preacher by the name 
of Dr. Hawes, pastor for many years of the First Con- 
gregational Church of Hartford, Connecticut, lay dying. 
The ministers of the city gathered in to visit him ; and as 
they stood around his bedside, one of them said to him, 
"Well, doctor, you are almost home; how does it seem 
to you now?" The dear old man looked up, the blessed 
old warrior of Israel, and said with blazing eyes: "O 
brethren, if there is anything in God's universe I love, 
it is the government and character of God; and whoever 
loves them is safe anywhere in God's universe." That 
old man was ready for glory. 

Some few years ago, Charles Kingsley, a famous 
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82 Whosoever. 

preacher and writer of England, lay dying. It was after 
midnight. The daughter was watching in the next room, 
the door open between, so that she could hear anything 
her father did, and know if he wanted anything. Along 
in the small hours of the morning she heard him say, 
"O, how beautiful is God!" She stepped on tiptoe softly 
into the other room to the bedside, and, lo, he was gone! 
On the border line between the two worlds he had caught 
a glimpse of the God whom he had loved so long; and his 
last exclamation of earth, and his first of heaven, was, "O, 
how beautiful is God!" 

Do you know what these things mean? Beloved, as 
sure as you sit in those seats, if you do not know, the 
reason is your hearts have not yet been prepared by 
sovereign grace for the glories of the eternal world. God 
help you to search your hearts and know where you are 
to-night! Why, you can see it is as plain as can be, 
why we must have these changes. You could not put a 
soul in such a place of misery anywhere in the universe, 
as to put him near God when he is not ready to meet 
Him. 

I will show you that by a simple illustration. When 
Wilberforce,the great philanthropist of England, who agi- 
tated for the suppression of the slave business, and finally 
stopped it throughout the British Empire, was living, 
he called with a friend one day on a sick and dying man. 
He noticed, as he was talking, that the sick man was very 
strangely agitated. He did not know why, and thinking 
it might perhaps be his presence, he said a few more 
words to him, and left the house. After he went away 
the dying man said, "O, I am so glad Wilberforce is 
gone ; he told me I was going straight to hell." "Why," 
says the friend, "he did not say anything of the kind to 



The Two Great Necessities. 83 

you. He was very gentle in his speech all the time." 
"I know he did not say it to me with his lips ; but his life, 
his beautiful life, told me I was going straight to hell!" 
Friends, if that wicked man could not bear the presence 
of Wilberforce this side of death, how could he bear the 
presence of God on the other side? Why, there would 
be no hell so hot for that wicked man as to put him right 
up on the sea of glass before the great White Throne, in 
the blazing light of the Son of God. To my mind the 
most awful punishment of the doomed given in that Book 
is not "the lake of fire and brimstone," or "the smoke 
of the torment that ascendeth for ever and ever," or "the 
weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth;" that is all 
figurative language. The most awful picture of punish- 
ment, to my mind, is where the sinners are calling on the 
rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from 
the face of Him that sitteth upon the Throne and from 
the Lamb. Beloved, no man can enjoy the sight of God 
and live, until his nature is fitted by grace to do it. Now, 
you can see the meaning of my text. You can see why 
God has said it. These changes must take place in our 
souls, or we are not fit for heaven, and we never could 
enjoy it. 

Now, notice, fourthly, how radical that change is. 
Birth is the starting point, and because we were started 
wrong we must all be started over again. We were con- 
ceived in iniquity and born in sin, and we have all got to 
be started over again. Some one asks, "Will not culture 
do?" Culture! culture! and some people spell it, or pro- 
nounce it as if it were spelled "culchah." Is it not enough 
to tone a man up a little here, and fix him up there? Will 
not that make him all right for heaven? There are thou- 
sands of people who think they are ready for heaven, be- 



84 Whosoever. 

cause they are so sweetly "culchahed." And many peo- 
ple think if they were born in Boston, they are good 
enough and do not need to be born again! Is that the 
meaning of God's Word? 

O beloved, let me show you how utterly futile that 
hope is. Darwin tells us that our pet cats are only little 
leopards, transformed by thousands of years of culture; 
but you see they have the carnivorous teeth, and the 
appetite for blood, and the same leopard nature yet; and 
all the generations of culture have not changed that a 
particle. I saw one day on the shore of Lake Michigan 
an eagle sitting near me in the edge of a town. I suppose 
it was a cultured eagle; but I noticed that the bird had 
the same curved beak and cruel talons. It was not a 
dove, if it was cultured; the eagle was there still, and 
culture did not change the inbred nature at all. And so, 
beloved, you can culture and culture the old man of de- 
pravity; but you will simply have cultured carnality as 
the result. You have not got a saint. 

This truth is illustrated by the young men in our col- 
leges. I know, from living seven years within college 
walls, that many college-bred men are as vile-hearted 
devils as ever walked the earth. They can read several 
languages, and swear and lie in several more; but yet 
they are as black as they need to be to sink into the in- 
fernal pit. Look at ancient Greece and Rome: were they 
not cultured? Their languages were so perfect that we 
send our children to college for years to study them. 
The old Greeks were so cultured that they had in some 
respects the best language that was ever spoken on the 
globe. Their very thought was philosophy, and their 
speech was poetry and eloquence; and yet, with all their 
culture they went down under the burden of their sins. 



The Two Great Necessities. 85 

Old Rome was outwardly imposing, and ruled the earth 
and was filled with orators and poets and historians and 
scholars; and yet, as one historian writes, "Rome, so out- 
wardly imposing, was inwardly rotten to the core." 

Are not the aristocrats in the West End of London 
cultured? They have all that Cambridge and Oxford 
and noble birth and foreign travel can give them. But 
some years ago, Mr. Stead, of the Pall Mall Gazette, got 
on the track of their wickedness, and published it in his 
paper. The story was so awful that all England began 
to rock and tremble as in the throes of a great earth- 
quake. The very throne began to totter, for it was touch- 
ing the princes of the blood-royal. Spurgeon went into 
his pulpit, and said, "If this wickedness is not stopped, 
the Lord will destroy modern London as he destroyed 
ancient Sodom. " But what did they do? They simply 
imprisoned Mr. Stead for publishing it, and the wicked- 
ness still goes on. And yet I call your attention to this 
startling fact, that those people were Churchmen. They 
had been baptized and joined the Church, and they had 
partaken of the communion, and they were members of 
the fashionable Churches; but their hearts were as black 
as hell, which shows how little baptism and communion 
and Church membership can do to fit anybody for heaven. 
I do not ask you to-night whether you have been con- 
firmed or not ; I do not ask you if you have been baptized ; 
I do not ask you if you are a member of the Church ; but 
I do ask you in God's name, have you been regenerated 
and made clean by the Holy Ghost and by the blood of 
Christ? That is the vital question; for nothing else will 
meet the needs of the soul. O culture! how utterly futile 
it is to take out of the soul that polluted current of life 
that has flowed in the human race from Adam's day until 



86 Whosoever. 

now. No tribe, no race, no people on the globe have 
ever been changed by culture. Nothing but God's grace 
can do the work. 

Several years ago there was an Englishman who came 
into possession of a little baby boa-constrictor seven 
inches long. He fondled it and fed it and caressed it and 
held it in his bosom, and it grew and grew and grew until 
it became a monster of its species, thirty-seven feet long. 
Then he performed with it night after night in the theaters 
of London. It would be the last and most thrilling act 
of every night's performance. The scenery would rep- 
resent an Indian jungle, and the orchestra would strike 
up the weird strains of Indian music. A rustle would be 
heard behind the scenery, and this awful creature would 
stretch its huge length out on the platform. The master 
would step up to it, and it would perform, and at the last 
the great beast would coil around him, coil upon coil, 
and rear his horrid head above him, when the curtain 
would drop amid thunders of applause. This went on 
night after night, until the last night came, as last nights 
always will come to earthly things. The beast came out 
as usual, performed as usual. The master stepped up as 
usual, and it coiled around as usual; but the master was 
heard to utter a shriek, and the audience thought it was a 
part of the performance, and applauded louder than ever. 
But pretty soon their faces were blanched with horror, 
for the great beast was tightening his coil and crushing 
the master's bones one by one right before their eyes. 
The cultured beast was master at last. Beloved, you can 
sport with this old beast of depravity, and try your cul- 
ture, and reject the Son of God, and fight Jesus Christ 
and the work of the Holy Spirit in your heart; but the 
day will come when that old beast of depravity will crush 



The Two Great Necessities. 87 

out of you every likeness to God and every hope of 
heaven. "Ye must be born again." God help you to 
see it! 

I hasten on to remark, last, this precious truth in 
closing, that you not only must be born again, but you 
may be. O, if God had only told us we must be born 
again, we would have lost all hope of salvation! If he 
had just told us we must, and had not told us how we 
could be, it would have brought black despair to the race. 
But, glory to God! He told us how. Jesus looked at 
that cultured, rich, refined ruler, and said, "Verily, verily, 
I say unto you, except a man be born again, he can not 
see the kingdom of God. 5 ' Nicodemus threw up his 
hands and cried out, "How can these things be!" Jesus 
did not take it back; but He repeated it again, driving it 
home, and making him feel the mighty necessity of this 
new birth; and after that Jesus told him how he might 
be born again. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in 
the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted 
up; that whosoever believeth may in Him have eternal 
life." Glory to God! There is that blessed "whoso- 
ever" again that I have been preaching. The blessed 
"whosoever," that takes in poor me, and gives me a 
chance with the rest of the world. I am so glad, and O, 
beloved, it is easy to get this new birth and this heart- 
cleansing, if you really want it. It does not take long 
if you really want it. 

One time in New York City a burglar was going up 
Fifth Avenue to break into a house, and he passed by a 
religious meeting, heard the words of sacred song com- 
ing out. He stopped and listened. The Spirit of God 
came upon him, and before that service was out he 
walked up to the front, and astonished the audience by 



88 Whosoever. 

taking the burglar's tools out of his pocket, and laying 
them down on the altar. He said: "Friends, I came in 
here a burglar; but I go out of here to be a child of God 
and an honest man." O, it does not take long, when 
you want to get saved. 

During Mr. Moody's first series of meetings in St. 
Louis, there was a man who got angry at a fellow-man, 
and swore he would shoot him at sight. He purchased 
a revolver, and started out to find him and shoot him. 
He went to all the man's usual places of resort and in- 
quired for him, and found he had gone to the Moody 
meeting. He started for the Moody meeting, and glared 
around over the audience looking to see where that man 
was. The Spirit prompted him to listen to the truth; 
and before the meeting was over his heart was changed, 
and he walked up to Mr. Moody and took his revolver 
and gave it to him, and said, "Mr. Moody, I came in 
here to kill a brother; but I have found my Elder Brother, 
Jesus Christ." Every night after that he brought, instead 
of a revolver, a New Testament, and went to the inquiry- 
room to lead others to Christ. 

O, it does not take long! Do you suppose if a man 
really wants God, and is willing to receive God, it would 
take five years to find Him? He may not live five years. 
Five months? You may not live five months. Five 
weeks? Who is certain of five weeks? Five hours? 
No. Five minutes? If a man really wants this blessing 
of God, it would not take five seconds to get it, and I 
will prove it to you by an illustration. Dr. Josiah Strong 
told me this in his own study. He said: "I began my 
ministry in Cheyenne, Wyoming. There was a young 
man in my congregation, the son of a Presbyterian min- 



The Two Great Necessities. 89 

ister, who had been instructed in the ways of religion, 
but had never given his heart to God. A wealthy gen- 
tleman moved into the town, and invited this young man 
to his house to the evening meal. He sat down and 
talked with him in the study until time for the meal. 
They were invited out, and sat down at the table; and 
the man, supposing him to be a Christian, turned to him 
and said, "Will you please ask a blessing, sir?" Well, 
quick as a lightning-flash, the thought swept through 
his soul, "I always intended giving my heart to Christ 
some time, and why not now?" and, without a moment's 
hesitation, he dropped his head and asked the blessing — 
a Christian man. You say, How do you know he was a 
Christian? From that hour, said his pastor, he was the 
most active lay Christian I ever knew. O, when a man's 
will yields to God, when he says, "Yes, dear Savior," he 
can have life and light. God intends salvation shall be 
accessible to any soul. 

Just another incident now, and I close. Bear with me 
a moment. After the battle of Pittsburg Landing, Moody 
was nursing dying soldiers. He had been at work all 
day until midnight, and had retired for a little sleep. As 
he was sleeping, some one awakened him, and said, 
"There is a poor, dying soldier that wants to see you." 
He rose up and went to the side of the cot of the poor, 
dying man, and said to him, "What is it you want?" 
He said, "I sent for you to help me die." "I can not help 
you die," said Moody. "O, I thought you were a min- 
ister." "No, I am not; but if I were, I could not help 
you to die." "O, who can help me to die?" "No one but 
Jesus." "Then there is no hope for me, for I have been 
an awfully wicked man." Mr. Moody gave him some 



90 Whosoever. 

passages of Scripture, and knelt down and prayed with 
him; but still he did not get any light. Then he gave 
him some more passages of Scripture, and prayed with 
him a second time; but still he received no help. Then 
he bethought him, and put his hand in his pocket and 
drew out his Testament, and read to him that wonderful 
third chapter of John about the new birth. When he 
came along to the fourteenth verse, "And as Moses lifted 
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son 
of man be lifted up ; that whosoever believeth may in Him 
have eternal life," he said, "Is that there?" "Yes, sir." 
"Will you please read that again?" He read it a second 
time. The poor fellow said, "Pardon me, sir; but please 
read that once more." He read it a third time. "There, 
that will do. That is enough." He shut his eyes. Pretty 
soon a smile came over his face, and his lips began to 
move, and Mr. Moody stooped down to listen, and he was 
repeating in a whisper, "And as Moses lifted up the ser- 
pent in the wilderness, even so — must — the — Son — of — 
man — be lifted up, that whosoever believeth may in Him 
have eternal life." "Lord, I believe, I believe," and a 
soul was gone to God. 

Have you not heard enough to-night? Will you not 
believe on the blood? Beloved, believe in the atoning 
Savior. Will you not take the Spirit for what you need 
to-night? O, if you want to be born again, ask God to 
be your Savior, and if you are a Christian and want to be 
sanctified, open the door of your heart, and let the Holy 
Ghost, with His cleansing power, fill your soul. 



The Two Great Necessities. 91 

TAKE ME AS I AM! 

Jesus, my Iyord, to thee I cry, 
Unless thou help me, I must die; 
O, bring thy free salvation nigh, 
And take me as I am! 

Cho. — Take me as I am ; 
Take me as I am. 
O, bring thy free salvation nigh, 
And take me as I am ! 

Helpless I am and full of guilt, 
But yet for me thy blood was spilt, 
And thou canst make me what thou wilt, 
But take me as I am ! 

If thou hast work for me to do, 
Inspire my will, my heart renew, 
And work both in and by me, too, 
But take me as I am! 

And when at last the work is done, 
The battle o'er, the vict'ry won, 
Still, still my cry shall be alone, 
O, take me as I am ! 




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ter VI, Is Pentecost Repeated? Chapter VII, Power for Service ; 
Chapter VIII, Mistakes of Simon Magus; Chapter IX, "Our 
Old Man; " Chaper X, Crucified with Christ; Chapter XI, The 
World Crucified; Chapter XII, Steps in the Experience of the 
Apostles ; Chapter XIII, Self-Purification ; Chapter XIV, Unto 
Perfection ; Chapter XV, A Good Conscience ; Chapter XVI, 
Shall He Find Faith? Chapter XVII, Self-Preservation ; Chap- 
ter XVIII, Antagonisms to Holiness; Chapter XIX, Spirituality 
vs. Ritualism; Chapter XX, Last Promise of Jesus; Chapter 
XXI, Divine Guidance ; Chapter XXII, John the Baptist; Chap- 
ter XXIII, An Unexpected Decree: Chapter XXIV, Christ's 
Coming Premillennial ; Chapter XXV, The Parousia; Chapter 
XXVI, Free from the Law ; Chapter XXVII, Serving in " New- 
ness " or " Oldness "—Which ? CHAPTER XXVIII, Suffering and 
Glorification ; CHAPTER XXIX, Salvation through Sanctification ; 
Chapter XXX, The Parables; Chapter XXXI, Sin Not a Neces- 
sity ; Chapter XXXII, Distinctions ; Chapter XXXIII, Philos- 
ophy of Doubt ; Chapter XXXIV, Negative Ritualism ; Chapter 
XXXV, Trinity, the New Birth, etc.; Chapter XXXVI, Personal 
Testimony. 



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